A  Centenary  Survey 

of 

Methodist  Episcopal 
Missions 

VEST  POCKET  EDITION 
1919 


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Part  I 

.METHODIST  EPISCOPAL  FOR-. 

EIGN  MISSIONS 

PAGE 

Africa  . 10 

China  . 22 

Europe  . 31 

India  . 42 

Japan  .  30 

Korea  . 57 

Malaysia  . . 62 

Mexico  . 68 

South  America  . .  73 

Panama  .  83 

The  Philippine  Islands  .  86 

Methodist  Episcopal  Foreign  Mis¬ 
sion  Bibliography  .  92 

General  Foreign  Mission  Bibliog- 
raphy  .  95 


Part  II 

r  EPISCOPAL  HOME 
MISSIONS 

PAGE 

The  Church’s  American  Frontier..  98 

The  Mormon  Menace  .  103 

The  American  Indian  .  106 

Our  Latin-Americans .  108 

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Hawaii  . 113 

Porto  Rico  . 115 

Orientals  in  America  . 117 

The  American  Negro  . . 119 

Rural  Methodism  . . 125 

Southern  Highlanders  ...........  133 

The  Italian  in  America  .  136 

Immigrants  from  Eastern  Europe..  138 
The  Finns,  Syrians,  French-Cana- 
dians,  Armenians  and  Greeks....  143 

The  American  City  .  145 

Training  Leaders  . 155 

Reconstruction  at  Home.... .  159 

Evangelism  . 161 

Church  Extension  .  163 

Centenary  Home  Mission  Askings..  167 
What  Money  Will  Do  in  Methodist 
Episcopal  Home  Mission  Fields..  168 
Methodist  Episcopal  Home  Mission 

Bibliography  .  179 

Methodist  Episcopal  General  Home 
Mission  Bibliography  .  183 


Part  III 

A  SUGGESTION  OR  TWO 

PAGE 

The  Centenary  Bulletin .  186 

Missionary  News  . 187 

World  Outlook . . .  188 

World  Methodists  .  189 

Men  and  Money  .  190 

The  Centenary  in  Lantern  Slides..  191 
A  Remarkable  Offer  .  192 


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PREFACE 


This  little  book  has  been  prepared  in 
response  to  a  demand  for  facts  con¬ 
cerning  home  and  foreign  missionary 
fields  and  the  Centenary  plans  with 
reference  to  Methodist  Episcopal  ac¬ 
tivities  both  at  home  and  abroad.  The 
limitations  of  the  size  of  this  volume 
preclude  any  attempt  at  exhaustive¬ 
ness,  but  there  will  be  found  here  in 
concise  form  just  those  facts  which 
will  help  the  speaker  to  interest  his 
listeners  in  the  great  theme  of  the 
Centenary  of  Methodist  Episcopal 
Missions.  Fuller  treatment  of  all 
these  fields  may  be  secured  by  writ¬ 
ing  to  the  office  of  the  Joint  Centen¬ 
ary  Committee  of  the  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Church,  111  Fifth  Avenue,  New 
York  City. 

The  material  in  Part  I,  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Foreign  Missions,  was  prepared 
by  Dr.  G.  H.  Myers,  secretary  of  the 
India  Mass  Movement,  who  has  been 


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privileged  to  visit  several  of  Metho¬ 
dism’s  foreign  mission  fields.  Part 
II,  Methodist  Episcopal  Home  Mis¬ 
sions,  was  prepared  under  the  direc¬ 
tion  of  Dr.  Ralph  Welles  Keeler,  Di¬ 
rector  of  Publicity  of  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  and  Church  Extension 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

rhe  Joint  Centenary  Committee  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
David  D.  Forsyth,  Chairman 
S.  Earl  Taylor,  Executive  Secretary 

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FOREWORD 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  will 
celebrate  the  one-hundredth  anniver¬ 
sary  of  the  founding  of  its  Missionary 
Society  with  a  movement  to  raise 
$80,000  000  for  mission  work  at  home 
and  abroad  and  $25,000,000  addi¬ 
tional  for  War  Reconstruction  work 
in  Europe  and  America.  The  task  is 
one  of  the  most  stupendous  ever  un¬ 
dertaken  by  any  branch  of  the  Chris¬ 
tian  .Church. 

A  careful  and  complete  survey  has  been 
made  of  every  field  to  determine  the 
Christian  agencies  that  are  required 
to  meet  its  needs.  A  comprehensive 
program  of  social,  educational,  evan¬ 
gelistic  and  healing  ministry  has  been 
planned.  Existing  schools,  colleges 
and  hospitals  will  be  strengthened  and 
new  ones  will  be  established.  Churches 
that  will  care  for  all  of  the  interests 
of  all  of  the  community  all  of  the 

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time  will  be  created,  The  poor,  the 
sick,  the  stranger  and  the  outcast 


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will  be  ministered  unto.  The  fron¬ 
tier,  the  rural  sections,  the  congested 
centers  will  be  cared  for.  The  Im¬ 
migrant,  the  Negro,  the  Indian,  and 
the  Highlanders  at  home  as  well  as 
the  needy  peoples  of  the  mission  fields 
abroad  will  be  looked  after. 

The  program  is  world  wide  in  its  scope 
and  as  varied  in  its  forms  as  the 
needs  of  those  whom  the  Church 
would  serve.  It  is  undertaken  in  no 
narrow  or  selfish  sectarian  spirit.  It 
is  not  a  piece  of  denominational  propa¬ 
ganda.  It  is  the  sincere  effort  of  a 
great  Church  to  make  its  full  con¬ 
tribution  to  the  Christian  welfare  and 
happiness  of  a  new  world. 

It  is  a  gigantic  undertaking.  But  this 
is  a  day  of  big  things.  Men  are 
thinking  and  acting  in  terms  and  di¬ 
mensions  that  their  fathers  never 
dreamed  of.  The  Church  must  catch 
the  spirit  of  the  new  day  or  sacrifice 
its  leadership. 

America  has  moved  out  of  its  old  iso¬ 
lation  into  the  realm  of  world  affairs. 
The  program  of  the  Church  must 
match  the  policy  of  the  nation  or  the 
Church  must  cease  as  a  world  force. 

Seven  millions  of  men  have  given  their 
lives  to  free  the  world.  The  Church 
must  now  give  its  life  and  substance, 
to  the  limit,  to  save  it.  If  we  do  less, 
we  shall  break  faith  with  those  who 
have  died  that  the  world  may  live. 


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Part  I 


METHODIST  EPISCO¬ 
PAL  FOREIGN 
MISSIONS 

The  following  pages  aim  to  present  in  a 
concise,  usable  form  the  salient  facts 
concerning  the  people  and  fields  min¬ 
istered  to  by  Methodist  Episcopal 
foreign  missions,  the  relations  of  the 
Church  to  this  task  as  planned  for 
and  administered  by  the  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  and  the  Centenary 
program  for  the  new  day  of  foreign 

missions. 

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More  elaborate  discussion  of  the  work 

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of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  will 
be  found  in  the  additional  literature 
listed  in  a  Bibliography  of  Methodist 
Episcopal  Foreign  Missions  on  page 
92. 


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AFRICA 


WHO  OWNS  AFRICA? 

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During  the  last  fifty  years,  nine-tenths 
of  Africa  has  been  claimed  and  ruled 
by  European  countries. 

Abyssinia  and  the  small  Negro  republic 
of  Liberia  are  the  only  native-ruled 
countries. 

France  rules  territories  in  Africa  twen¬ 
ty  times  her  own  size. 

The  British  flag  flies  over  an  empire 
in  Africa  as  large  as  the  United 
States. 

Germany’s  lost  colonies  in  Africa  are 
many  times  larger  than  the  Fatherland. 

A  CONTINENT  OF  OPPORTUNITY 

Africa  contains  12,000,000  square  miles, 
and  is  three  times  as  large  as  Europe 
and  half  again  as  large  as  North 
America. 

It  is  as  far  around  the  coast  of  Africa 
as  it  is  around  the  world. 

Africa  has  40,000  miles  of  river  and 
lake  navigation. 

It  has  more  than  25,000  miles  of  rail¬ 
ways. 


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The  population  of  Africa  is  130,000,000. 

This  population  includes  Bantu,  Bush¬ 
men,  Hamitics  (native  Egyptians), 
Semitics  (Arabs),  Hottentots,  Pig¬ 
mies,  Negroes  and  White  Men. 

DIPLOMATIC  DUTIES 

The  Peace  Congress  will  make  more 
changes  affecting  Africa  than  any 
other  continent  except  Europe. 

Many  seeds  of  the  recent  world  war 
were  in  jealousies  over  African  do¬ 
minion. 

A  broad,  unselfish  policy  toward  Africa 
is  necessary  for  future  world  peace. 

There  are  three  large  divisions  of 
Africa  to  be  disposed  of  at  the  Peace 
Conference : 

1.  German  East  Africa,  as  large  as 
Texas  and  New  Mexico  combined. 

2.  Kamerun,  equal  to  Texas  and 
Louisiana,  on  the  west  coast  near 
the  equator.  Its  climate  is  un¬ 
suited  to  white  men. 

3.  German  South  Africa,  as  large  as 
Texas  and  Oklahoma,  with  hot 
though  not  tropical  climate.  A 
“white  man’s  country”  with  prom¬ 
ise  of  becoming  an  important 
stock  raising  country. 

COMMERCIAL  CONQUESTS 

The  world  at  large  has  come  upon 
Africa  with  a  rush  with  railways, 
steamboats,  electric  cars,  factories, 
mines,  laws  and  police. 


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1  he  Cape-to-Cairo  Railway  will  bring 
the  southern  tip  of  Africa  within  ten 
days  of  London  and  Paris. 

The  vast  resources  of  Africa  will  then 
be  quickly  available  for  the  markets 
of  the  world: 

800,000  square  miles  of  coal  fields. 

95,000  acres  of  fertile  farmlands. 

Iron  ore  equal  to  five  times  the  output 
of  North  America. 

Ninety  per  cent  of  the  world’s  dia¬ 
monds. 

$10,000,000  worth  of  rubber  yearly  from 
Belgian  Congo. 

Uncounted  millions  in  ivory,  nuts,  oil, 
copper  and  gold. 

In  the  wake  of  Western  civilization  are 
the  deadly  attendants  of  the  white 
man,  drunkenness  and  immorality,  be¬ 
fore  which  the  black  man  is  helpless. 

In  1914-15  over  1,500,000  gallons  of  rum 

^  were  shipped  from  Boston  to  Africa. 

The  Christian  missionary  finds  the 
liquor  traffic  harder  to  combat  than 
witchcraft,  ignorance  and  racial  su¬ 
perstitions. 

Johannesburg,  in  South  Africa,  is 
called  the  “University  of  Crime.” 

From  all  over  the  southern  half  of 
Africa  500,000  natives  come  every 
year  to  work  in  the  gold  mines  of 
Johannesburg. 

20,000  of  these  die  in  a  year,  victims  of 
the  white  man’s  drinks,  diseases  and 
vices. 


SOME  AFRICAN 
CHARACTERISTICS 

Climate  has  been  a  barrier  to  missionary 
effort. 

Physical  dangers  have  been  a  real  deter¬ 
rent  to  Europeans  and  Americans  in 
Africa. 

4,000,000  are  killed  for  witchcraft  an¬ 
nually. 

The  tick,  the  mosquito  and  the  tsetse  fly 
are  dangerous  carriers  of  disease. 

Tropical  fevers,  sleeping  sickness,  pneu¬ 
monia  and  dysentery  are  common. 

In  the  parts  of  Africa  untouched  by  civ¬ 
ilization  the  death-rate  is  very  high. 

Lack  of  exploration  has  prevented  mis¬ 
sionary  occupation. 

Livingstone,  the  first  explorer  of  Cen¬ 
tral  Africa,  has  been  dead  only  forty- 
five  years. 

An  African  customarily  reckons  his 
wealth  by  wives,  cattle,  and  land.. 

Purchased  bv  her  husband,  the  African 
woman  is  his  property  to  use  as  he 
will. 

She  must  work  for  him,  carry  burdens, 
submit  to  cruel  blows  or  burning 
strokes  from  a  heated  cutlass. 

Under  missionary  influence  the  African 
of  his  own  accord  turns  away  from 
this  mercenary  polygamy. 

The  native  attributes  all  his  ills  to 
myriad  evil  and  malignant  spirits 
which  are  waiting  to  torture  him. 

Slave  trade,  forbidden  by  law,  exists  on 
plantations  under  the  name  of  contract 
labor. 


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THREE  BATTLE  FRONTS 

North  Africa,  with  a  population  of 
40,000,000,  is  Mohammedan. 

Europeanized  South  Africa,  with  1 0,- 
000,000  people,  is  Christian. 

The  80,000,000  people  in  Central  Africa, 
between  Mohammedan  North  Africa 
and  Christian  South  Africa,  are  pagan. 

The  Mohammedan  invasion  from  North 
Africa  is  the  most  vigorous,  antag¬ 
onistic  force  which  Christianity  is 
meeting  anywhere  on  earth. 

All  ranks  of  men  are  propagandists. 

Merchants  carry  the  Koran  and  the 
Moslem  Catechism  wherever  they 
carry  their  merchandise. 

For  every  33  natives  who  become  Chris¬ 
tians,  100  become  Mohammedans. 

The  Mohammedan  gain  is  so  rapid  that 
unless  great  haste  is  made  to  teach 
the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ,  pagan  Af¬ 
rica  will  surely  become  Mohammedan. 

.All  experience  proves  that  it  is  much 
harder  to  win  men  from  Mohammed¬ 
anism  to  Christianity  than  it  is  to  win 
them  from  their  native  paganism. 

The  shattering  of  Islam’s  political  pow¬ 
er  by  the  war  and  the  shrinking  of  its 
prestige  gives  to  the  Christian  Church 
the  crisis  of  a  great  opportunity. 

The  Christian  Church  would  make  a  gi¬ 
gantic  blunder  if  it  should  allow  Mo¬ 
hammedanism  to  establish  itself  in 
Africa. 

There  are  543  distinct  languages  and  300 
dialects  in  Africa. 


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Missionaries  and  Bible  Societies  have 
translated  and  printed  the  Scriptures 
into  100  African  tongues. 

There  are  still  443  tongues  without  the 
Word  of  God. 

It  is  one  of  the  ironical  facts  of  Chris¬ 
tian  history  that  the  continent’  on 
which  Christianity  firmly  established 
itself  in  its  earliest  days  should  be  the 
very  last  to  be  opened  up  to  Christian 
influence. 

Gibraltar  is  a  fit  symbol  for  Africa  in 
Christian  history. 

It  has  been  a  continent  of  superlative 
obstacles,  of  daily  oppositions,  and  of 
impenetrable  darkness  until  two  gen¬ 
erations  ago. 

Yet  it  has  witnessed  the  greatest  tri¬ 
umphs  of  Christian  success  in  the  con¬ 
version  of  whole  tribes. 

Africa  has  the  brightest  and  longest  line 
of  great  missionaries  of  any  foreign 
mission  field. 

Within  50  years,  in  the  judgment  of  the 
closest  students  of  Africa,  its  religious 
future  will  be  decided. 

“The  Mohammedan  advance  in  Africa 
is  the  largest  missionary  world  prob¬ 
lem  confronting  the  whole  Church  at 
the  beginning  of  the  twentieth  cen¬ 
tury,”  says  Bishop  Joseph  C.  Hartzell. 
“Our  most  immediate  and  insistent 
duty  is  to  give  the  gospel  to  Africa’s 
millions,  thus  saving  them  from  the 
Moslem  faith,  and  the  continent  for 
Christ.” 


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METHODISM  IN  AFRICA 

Methodists  are  responsible  for  20,000,000 
people  in  territories  already  occupied 
by  Methodist  Missions  or  assigned  to 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  by  the 
government,  or  through  arrangements 
with  other  churches. 

Africa  has  a  Methodist  republic, — 
Liberia. 

Descendants  of  American  freed  slaves 
organized  Liberia  in  1820,  forming  a 
Methodist  church  on  the  ship  going 
over. 

Liberia  is  still  Methodist. 

Liberia  now  has  four  Methodist  educa¬ 
tional  institutions,  but  needs  more. 

There  are  346  native  Methodist  Episco¬ 
pal  preachers  and  workers  in  Africa 
and  364  churches,  chapels,  parsonages 
and  homes. 

At  Old  Umtali  in  Rhodesia,  Methodism 
has  3,000  acres  of  land  and  many 
buildings  turned  over  to  the  church  by 
the  British  Government. 

The  Belgian  Government  has  given 
2,000  acres  of  land  in  which  it  has 
asked  the  Methodist  Mission  to  es¬ 
tablish  an  agricultural  school. 

Other  centers  of  this  kind  are  to  be 
placed  in  charge  of  missionaries. 

In  the  midst  of  the  Belgian  Congo  there 
is  a  rapidly  developing  industrial  mis¬ 
sion  which  is  surrounding  that  center 
with  80  primary  schools. 

Training  in  agriculture,  carpentry  and 
brickmaking  supplements  and  extends 
evangelistic  work. 


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Fertilizers  are  supplanting  fetishes  in 
making  crops  grow. 

The  supreme  demand  of  the  hour  is  to 
throw  across  Central  Africa,  from  the 
western  to  the  eastern  coast,  a  line 
of  mission  stations  to  occupy  vacant 
areas  and  stop  the  advancing  Mo¬ 
hammedan  wave. 

A  second  demand  is  to  meet  the  Mo¬ 
hammedan  peril  at  its  base  in  North 
Africa  by  establishing  Methodist  Mis¬ 
sions  in  the  midst  of  the  Moslem  land. 

In  North  Africa  the  most  promising 
work  is  among  the  children. 

4  homes  for  boys  and  10  homes  for  girls 
are  a  strategic  beginning  for  evan¬ 
gelistic  work. 

In  the  Republic  of  Liberia  Methodism 
has  a  press,  a  college,  industrial 
schools,  and  theological  seminaries. 

In  Angola  on  the  west  coast  are 
churches,  and  boys’  and  girls’  schools. 

In  Portuguese  East  Africa  the  Meth¬ 
odist  Episcopal  Mission  comprises 
churches,  a  mission  press,  training 
school,  girls’  school  and  two  hospitals. 

The  Methodist  physician  in  Portuguese 
East  Africa  is  the  only  medical  man 
in  a  territory  populated  by  3, 500, OCX) 
people. 

By  6  o’clock  in  the  morning  50  patients 
await  him  outside  the  hospital. 

Hundreds  of  native  pastor-teachers  must 
be  trained. 

Native  chiefs  are  asking  for  missionaries 
and  in  many  cases  are  eager  to  grant 
necessary  land  and  buildings  for 
schools,  churches  and  homes. 


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WHAT  THE  METHODIST  EPISCO¬ 
PAL  CHURCH  HAS  IN  AFRICA 

1918 

Property — 

,  ,  No.  Valuation 

Churches,  chapels,  par¬ 
sonages,  homes .  364  $341,273 

Educational  institutions 

and  presses... .  23 

Hospitals  and  dispen¬ 
saries  .  4 


130,143 


Total  property 
Staff — 


$471,418 


92  Missionaries  and  foreign  workers 
346  Native  preachers  and  workers 
306  Teachers 

744  Total  staff 


Students  and  Pupils .  9,809 

Membership  . .  20  877 

Sunday  School  Scholars... _ *  14,995 

Epworth  League  Members .  296 

Unbaptized  Adherents .  12.099 


THE  CENTENARY  PROGRAM 
IN  AFRICA 
1918-1922 

Property  and  Equipment — 

93  Churches  and  chapels . 

03  Native  residences....... 

59  Missionary  residences . 

11  Mission  houses . 

2  Hostels  . 

725.645 


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Additional  buildings  and 
equipment  for  45  schools 

15  Teachers’  residences... _ 

4  Presses  . 

395,175 

7  Hospitals  . 

6  Dispensaries  . 

I  Leper  home  . . 

1  Tuberculosis  sanitarium... 

Buildings,  land  and  equip¬ 
ment  for  above .  33,000 


Total  property  and  equip¬ 
ment  . .$1,153,820 

Staff  and  Maintenance — 

154  Native  preachers . 

48  Missionary  preachers . 

$398,835 

153  Native  teachers . 

40  Missionary  teachers . 

202,975 

9  Missionary  doctors. . 

6  Missionary  nurses . 

15  Native  medical  assistants.. 

62,550 


Total  staff  and  nfainte- 


nance .  $664,360 

Total  requirements .  38,095 

From  local  receipts . .  38,095 

From  home  base . .  1,780,085 


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JUST  WHAT  YOUR  MONEY  WILL 
DO  IN  AFRICA 


$5  will  supply  a  village  with  copies  of  < 
a  gospel  in  the  native  tongue. 

$25  will  give  a  year’s  Bible  training  to  J 
a  native. 

$50  will  build  a  house  of  worship  in  | 
an  outlying  village. 

$200  will  pay  the  salary  of  a  native  ; 
preacher  for  a  year. 

$250  will  open  a  station  in  new  terri-  < 
tory. 

$500  will  buy  a  motorcycle  for  use  in 
itinerating.  : 

$1,000  will  pay  the  salary  of  a  new  mis¬ 
sionary.  : 

$1,500  will  build  a  church  or  a  parson¬ 
age. 

$2,500  will  build  an  entire  mission  com¬ 
pound  in  Central  Africa. 

$10  will  furnish  the  equipment  for  open¬ 
ing  a  kraal  school. 

$25  will  keep  a  pupil  in  school  for  a 
year. 

$70  will  provide  a  scholarship  for  an 
Algerian  boy. 

$100  will  build*  a  dormitory  in  Central 
Africa. 

$200  will  pay  the  salary  of  a  native 
teacher  for  a  year. 

$500  will  build  a  workshop  for  an  in¬ 
dustrial  school. 

$1,000  will  buy  tools  for  a  mission  sta¬ 
tion. 

$2,800  will  pay  for  necessary  irriga¬ 
tion. 


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>5,000  will  equip  the  only  printing  press 
among  a  whole  race. 

£5  will  provide  quinine  for  one  person 
for  a  year. 

£10  will  buy  surgical  dressings  for  a 
hundred  cases. 

£60  will  pay  the  expenses  of  a  native 
nurse  for  a  year. 

£75  will  provide  a  year’s  treatment  for  a 
leper. 

$600  will  pay  the  salary  of  an  American 
nurse  for  a  year. 

$800  will  equip  a  sub-dispensary. 

$1,000  will  buy  a  year’s  supply  for  a 
hospital. 

$1,200  will  pay  the  salary  of  an  Amer¬ 
ican  doctor  for  a  year. 

$5,000  will  establish  a  small  hospital. 


CHINA 


RESOURCES 

J  X  ■  I 

China  has  a  population  of  400,000,000— 
the  largest  population  of  any  country 
in  the  world,  and  one-fourth  of  all  the 
world’s  people. 

The  population  of  China  doubles  itself 
in  about  80  years;  that  of  the  rest  of 
the  world  in  about  a  century 

It  is  probable  that  by  the  year  2000 
China’s  population  will  be  close  to 
800,000,000. 

China  has  an  area  fifty  times  that  of 
Japan,  with  a  wealth  of  natural  re¬ 
sources  several  hundredfold  as  large, 
but  still  only  partially  realized. 

With  a  wealth  of  coal  deposits  as  great 
as  those  of  the  United  States,  China 
is  to-day  still  importing  coal  from 
Japan.  , 

The  Chinese  are  successful  farmers  and 
with  them  farmers  have  always  ranked 
high  in  the  social  scale.  They  get  the 
largest  yield,  per  acre,  per  year,  of 
any  farmers  in  the  world. 

But  in  some  sections  a  large  portion  of 
the  tillable  area  is  covered  with  the 
immovable  graves  of  ancestors. 

In  one  year  China  exported  68,160  tons 
of  peanuts.  China’s  exports  of  fruit, 
flour,  meats  and  nuts  run  into  millions 
of  tons  annually. 

Though  it  is  the  largest  cotton  yarn 
market  in  the  world,  China  has  only 
1,000,000  modern  spindles;  the  United 
States  thirty-two  times  that  number. 


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INDUSTRY 

1  C  A/I  *  .  i  . 

Wages  in  China  are  unbelievably  low. 
The  women  silk-reelers  in  Shanghai 
get  from  eight  to  eleven  cents  a  day 
for  eleven  hours’  work. 

In  the  steel  works  at  Hanyang,  common 
labor  gets  three  dollars  a  month; 
skilled  mechanics  get  from  eight  to 
twelve  dollars  a  month. 

Prices  of  all  commodities  and  wages  of 
labor  are  rising.  Wages  for  unskilled 
labor  have  risen  fifty  per  cent  or  more 
in  the  coast  cities. 

In  121  of  China’s  silk  mills,  out  of  the 
women  and  children  employed  thirty- 
five  per  cent  are  children  under  four¬ 
teen  years  of  age. 

China,  however,  is  not  entirely  averse 
to  modern  labor-saving  inventions. 

On  the  other  hand,  she  has  cities  of 
more  than  100,000  population  where 
the  Standard  Oil  Company’s  kerosene 
lamps  are  the  greatest  luxury  in  light¬ 
ing  facilities,  where  there  are  no  run¬ 
ning  water  system,  no  sewer  system 
and  no  telephones. 

The  Chinese  are  anxious  to  have  “for¬ 
eign”  goods  that  are  beneficial,  but 
protest  against  harmful  articles. 

China  has  one  of  the  world’s  best  pos¬ 
tal  systems.  Rates  are  cheaper  and 
deliveries  more  frequent  in  Canton 
than  in  New  York. 

China  has  partially  sacrificed  her  inde¬ 
pendence  to  the  foreigners  who  en¬ 
gage  in  business  in  the  coast  cities. 


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In  tonnage  Shanghai  is  the  world’s  sev¬ 
enth  port. 

China’s  foreign  trade  in  the  past  thirty 
years  has  advanced  from  $80,000,000 
to  $400,000,000  (gold).  It  should  be 
many  times  greater. 

There  were  twenty-five  to  thirty  thou¬ 
sand  opium  smokers  in  1906  when  the 
government  forbade  the  consumption 
of  opium  and  the  growing  of  poppies. 

Nor  is  the  opium  evil  yet  entirely  eradi¬ 
cated.  Recently  the  Chinese  govern¬ 
ment  agreed  to  buy  1,700  chests  of 
opium  held  by  the  Shanghai  Opium 
Combine  and  re-sell  it  in  the  form  of 
“medicine.” 

The  West  has  brought  into  China  a  dan¬ 
gerous  substitute  for  opium.  To-day 
half  the  world’s  cigarettes  are  smoked 
in  China.  After  the  expulsion  of 
opium,  five  million  dollars’  worth  of 
free  samples  of  cigarettes  were  dis¬ 
tributed  throughout  the  Empire.  Free 
distribution  still  goes  on. 

SANITATION 

The  number  of  deaths  through  igno¬ 
rance,  especially  of  children,  is  ghast¬ 
ly.  The  infant  mortality  rate  is  be¬ 
tween  sixty-five  and  seventy  per  cent. 

For  this  the  crafty  witch  doctor  and  the 
ignorant,  filthy  midwife  are  largely 
responsible. 

In  all  China  there  are  only  114  Ameri¬ 
can  hospitals.  Eleven  of  these  hospi¬ 
tals  are  Methodist,  and  40  per  cent  of 
them  are  now  closed  for  lack  of  staff. 


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But  the  outlook  for  the  future  is  bright¬ 
er.  In  1917  between  75  and  100 
women  physicians  were  enrolled  in 
mission  colleges  in  China,  and  an  even 
larger  number  of  women  nurses. 

EDUCATION 

The  educational  opportunity  in  China  is 
the  real  key  to  her  future.  Ninety-five 
per  cent  of  the  population  of  China 
are  illiterate.  Not  one  woman  in  a 
thousand  can  read  or  write.  Only  2 
per  cent  of  China’s  children  are  in 
school.  A  safe  democracy  under  such 
conditions  is  unthinkable. 

The  tea-shops  in  China  are  like  the  “cor¬ 
ner  groceries”  here.  In  these  discus¬ 
sion-centers  fully  twenty-five  per  cent 
of  the  population  become  acquainted 
with  Chinese  current  events. 

A  child  in  China  has  very  small  chance 
of  being  able  to  go  to  school.  This 
is  partly  due  to  unsettled  government 
conditions.  Nearly  60,000,000  children 
are  waiting  for  schools. 

Methodism  is  directly  responsible  for 
16,000,000  of  these.  Already  Method¬ 
ist-supported  schools  have  an  enroll¬ 
ment  of  25,000  students. 

Educational  work  is  deeply  involved 
with  evangelistic.  Thus  the  percentage 
of  literacy  in  the  church  is  well  above 
the  general  average. 

The  students  in  China’s  schools  to-day, 
who  must  guide  her  destinies  to¬ 
morrow,  are  religiously  adrift. 


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Communities  everywhere  are  calling, 
frequently  in  vain,  for  Christian 
schools.  The  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  could  enroll  1,000,000  children 
in  the  village  primary  schools  at  once 
if  it  had  teachers  and  equipment.  The 
Chinese  are  ready  to  do  their  part  in 
spreading  education,  by  making  liberal 
subscriptions  for  land  and  buildings. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has  598 
elementary  schools,  20  boarding  high 
schools,  10  intermediate  and  higher 
boarding  schools,  one  college,  and  a 
share  in  4  union  universities,  with  a 
total  of  21,048  students. 

There  are  also  in  China  1 1  Methodist 
Episcopal  Theological  and  Bible  train¬ 
ing  schools,  with  557  students. 

EVANGELISM 

Methodists  are  exclusively  responsible 
for  the  welfare  of  80,000,000  Chinese — 
four-fifths  as  many  people  as  there  are 
in  the  whole  United  States. 

Christianity  is  recognized  by  the  Chinese 
government  as  a  vital  factor.  Gov¬ 
ernment  schools  and  offices  close  on 
Sunday.  Officials  are  friendly  and 
often  cooperate  with  missions. 

In  the  early  days,  the  missionary  reached 
only  the  poorer  classes.  Now  among 
all  classes,  government  officials,  schol¬ 
ars,  and  the  illiterate  masses,  there  is 
an  openness  to  Christianity. 

There  are  3,000  native  Methodist  preach¬ 
ers  in  China. 

The  pastoral  support  in  China  has  in¬ 
creased  from  nothing  to  sixty  per  cent. 


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In  some  districts,  all  salaries  for  na¬ 
tive  pastors  are  paid  by  the  Chinese, 
while  in  others  every  dollar  from 
America  is  matched  with  another  from 
the  Chinese  church. 

There  is  a  splendid  practical  comity  in 
China  among  all  denominations.  The 
field  is  clearly  divided  to  prevent  over¬ 
lapping.  There  are  over  40  inter¬ 
denominational  institutions  in  China. 

Thousands  of  villages  and  towns  for 
which  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
is  responsible  are  still  without  any 
regular  Christian  services. 

Methodist  Episcopal  Mission  work  be¬ 
gan  in  China  at  Foochow,  in  1847. 
After  71  years,  we  have  65,900  mem¬ 
bers,  7,309  unbaptized  adherents,  and 
a  strong  native  leadership  of  3,000 
preachers. 

MEDICAL  WORK 

Chinese  medicine,  although  possessing 
some  value,  is  bound  up  with  gross 
superstitions  and  magic. 

It  is  quite  inadequate  to  cope  with  such 
diseases  as  diphtheria,  cholera,  and 
plagues. 

The  Chinese  know  practically  nothing 
of  surgery  except  as  they  learn  it 
from  Western  schools. 

Only  in  a  few  centers  have  people 
awakened  to  questions  of  public  sani¬ 
tation. 

Cities  the  size  of  Boston  draw  water 
from  polluted  rivers  and  wells. 

Every  city  and  village  has  . open  sewers. 

Methodism’s  responsibility  is  to  help  the 


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Chinese  establish  hospitals,  and  pro¬ 
vide  doctors  and  nurses  for  a  popu¬ 
lation  equal  to  all  of  New  England, 
and  the  Atlantic  and  Gulf  States. 

In  West  China  alone  we  are  responsi¬ 
ble  for  10,000,000  people,  and  we  have 
only  2  medical  men  there. 

Missionary  physicians  have  specir.l  en¬ 
tree  to  the  upper  classes. 

Every  hospital  is  understaffed.  Five 
hospitals  have  no  nurses,  6  have  only 
one  doctor  each.  Four  hospitals  are 
now  without  physicians  and  closed. 

WHAT  THE  METHODIST  EPISCO¬ 
PAL  CHURCH  HAS  IN  CHINA 


19  18 

Property — 

No.  Valuation 

Churches,  chapels,  parson¬ 
ages,  homes . 1,022  $666,588 

Educational  institutions 

and  presses  .  42 

Hospitals  and  dispensaries.  13 

1,055,075 

Total  property .  $1,721,663 

Staff — 


282  Missionaries  and  foreign  workers 
2,344  Native  preachers  and  workers 
1,117  Teachers 


3,743  Total  staff 

Students  and  pupils .  21,048 

Membership  .  65,899 

Sunday  School  scholars .  44,898 

Epworth  League  members . 8,734 

Unbaptized  adherents . 7,309 


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THE  CENTENARY  PROGRAM 
IN  CHINA 

1918-1922 

Property — 

10  Institutional  churches . 

382  City  and  village  churches. . 

12  Missionary  residences . 

53  Native  workers’  residences 

Buildings,  land,  equipment 
for  above  . 

$1,061,075 

Additional  buildings  and 
equipment  for  four  uni¬ 
versity  centers  —  Peking, 

Nanking,  Fukien,  West 

China . 

21  Secondary  schools  —  added 

equipment  . 

328  Primary  schools  —  model 
day  school  buildings,  etc. 

35  Teachers’  residences . 

1 ,879,007 

13  Hospitals — additional  build¬ 

ings  and  equipment . 

13  Dispensaries  . 

9  Doctors’  residences . 

660.300 

Total  property  and  equip¬ 
ment  . $3,600,382 

Endowment  .  1,806,667 

Staff  and  Maintenance- 

33  Missionary  preachers . 

474  Native  workers . 

$535,516 

65  Missionary  teachers . 

973  Native  teachers . 


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1,131,978 


25  Missionary  doctors . 

14  Nurses  . . 

£0!  Native  doctors,  assistants 
and  others  . . 

$427,045 

Total  staff  and  mainte- 

nance . . . $2,094,539 

Total  requirements . .  $7,501 ,588  ] 

From  total  receipts....  865,620 

From  home  base  .  6,635,968 

INVESTMENTS  IN  CHINA 

$10  will  support  a  rural  Chinese  evan-  j 
gelist  for  a  month. 

$100  will  maintain  a  native  pastor  for 
four  months. 

$500  will  house  a  pastor’s  family. 

$1,000  will  build  a  brick  church. 

$5  000  will  build  an  institutional  church,  u 
$25  will  give  a  student  Christian  instruc¬ 
tion  for  a  year. 

$50  will  make  possible  a  Christian  pri¬ 
mary  school. 

$100  will  maintain  a  student  in  theologi¬ 
cal  school  for  a  year.  T, 

$1,000  will  provide  a  model  primary 
school  building. 

$25,000  will  erect  a  building  in  a  uni¬ 
versity. 

$50  will  support  a  student  nurse  for  a 
year. 

$75  will  equip  a  memorial  ward.  Fr 

$450  will  support  a  trained  native  doc¬ 
tor  for  a  year.  Fr 

$650  will  send  an  American  graduate  ] 
nurse  to  help  an  overworked  doctor,  f 
$1,000  will  build  or  equip  a  dispensary,  a 
$30,000  will  build  or  equip  a  hospital.  S( 


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EUROPE 


The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has 
fields  in  the  following  countries,  ex¬ 
clusive  of  enemy  territory:  Den¬ 
mark,  France,  Italy,  Norway,  Russia, 
Sweden,  Switzerland. 

There  is  in  Europe  to-day  the  tragedy 
of  an  uncontrolled  industrial  situa¬ 
tion,  and  unless  the  Church  of  God 
gets  into  that  thing  we  shall  have 
missed  our  opportunity  for  a  thou¬ 
sand  years. 

Methodism  is  strategically  located  in  all 
the  European  centers,  unlike  any 
other  Protestant  denomination,  and 
therefore  from  its  very  position  is 
able  to  do  tremendous  emergency 
work  at  once. 

The  Methodist  plan  is  to  expend  mil¬ 
lions  in  the  work  in  Europe  which 
will  be  raised  in  connection  with  their 
Centenary  Campaign. 

FRANCE 

France  ranks  fourth  in  size  among 
European  countries. 

France  is  a  centralized,  Parliamentary 
Republic,  comprising  a  total  continen¬ 
tal  area  of  207.129  square  miles,  with 
an  additional  colonial  area  of  4,632,052 
square  miles. 


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In  no  other  theater  of  war  has  the  fight¬ 
ing  approached  in  intensity  that  on 
the  French  front,  and  nowhere  else 
has  there  been  such  utter  devastation 
of  once  fertile  land. 

The  total  number  of  houses  destroyed 
in  France  is  estimated  at  a  quarter  of 
a  million. 

Losses  during  the  war:  1914-1918 — kill¬ 
ed  1 ,400,000 ;  maimed  1 ,000,000 ;  tu¬ 
bercular,  250,000;  blind,  over  7,000; 
prisoners  over  200,000. 

About  20%  of  the  land  has  been  totally 
torn  up.  It  is  said  by  engineers  that 
it  will  take  $8,000,000,000  to  restore 
the  land  and  to  reforest  it,  with  100 
years  of  constant  intensive  cultivation. 

There  will  not  be  man  power  enough 
to  cultivate  the  farms  in  the  old  way. 
France  must  learn  scientific  farming 
or  go  under. 

Until  a  dozen  years  ago  religion  was 
subsidized  by  the  State,  the  Roman 
Catholic,  Protestant  and  Jewish  con¬ 
fessions  receiving  contributions  from 
the  budget  according  to  their  numeri¬ 
cal  strength. 

By  a  law  enacted  then  the  Concordant 
was  abolished  and  State  maintenance 
of  Roman  Catholic,  Protestant  and 
Jewish  clergy  came  to  an  end.  No 
religion  is  now  recognized  by  the 
State. 

More  than  200  French  Protestant  min¬ 
isters’  names  have  been  reported  in 
the  casualty  lists  of  the  war. 

The  Protestants  are  most  numerous  in 
the  south  of  France.  The  Jews  are 


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supposed  to  be  decreasing,  and  num¬ 
ber  less  than  10,000,  being  mostly  in 
the  large  cities,  such  as  Paris,  Lyons 
and  Bordeaux. 

Methodism  in  France  was  carried  to  the 
Channel  Islands  as  early  as  1779  by 
English  soldiers;  Wesley  himself 
preached  on  these  islands  in  1  787,  and 
went  to  the  mainland  in  1 790. 

Our  French  Mission  was  begun  in  1907 
by  Bishop  Burt.  Under  the  enthusias¬ 
tic  direction  of  Dr.  Ernest  W.  Bysshe 
its  activities  have  broadened  to  meet 
the  needs  and  stress  of  the  war  con¬ 
ditions,  and  yet  its  spirit  has  remained 
unchanged. 

The  Mission  now  seeks  to  obtain  $1  50,- 
000  to  purchase  an  estate  of  450  acres 
near  Paris,  completely  equipped,  where 
250  boys  may  receive  the  best  training 
in  farming  or  industrial  pursuits,  or, 
if  fitted  for  it,  in  professional  lines. 

The  total  population  of  the  France 
Mission  Conference  district  is  about 
4,000,000,  of  whom  considerably  less 
than  a  million  have  any  other  than 
the  most  nominal  connection  with  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church. 

We  are  the  only  American  Church  in 
France  to-day.  Ours  are  the  opportun¬ 
ities  and  obligations.  We  can  do  our 
part  so  that  the  reconstruction  of 
France  may  be  not  alone  material  and 
humanitarian,  but  also  spiritual. 

There  is  a  crying  need  and  a  great  field 
for  Christian  literature  of  a  high 
order,  but  it  must  be  perfectly  adapt¬ 
ed  to  the  French  people. 


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We  shall  never  have  a  strong  aggres¬ 
sive  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in 
France  until  we  train  our  young  pas¬ 
tors  in  our  own  institutions. 

We  have  seven  stations,  nine  out-ap¬ 
pointments,  one  church  building  val¬ 
ued  at  $4,000,  one  missionary  family, 
nine  pastors  and  workers,  of  whom 
two  are  mobilized  and  one  has  been 
discharged  from  the  army  and  two 
pastors  seriously  wounded ;  655  mem¬ 
bers  and  probationers,  556  adherents. 

We  cannot  expect  French  people  with 
their  ideals  of  decency  and  their 
artistic  tastes,  so  highly  developed,  to 
rally  to  our  Church  or  to  believe  in 
its  permanence  while  we  have  only 
renovated  stores  or  sheds  in  which 
to  meet. 

We  have  13  Sunday  Schools  and  248 
Sunday  School  pupils.  Sunday  School 
work  is  very  difficult  in  France. 

BELGIUM 

Over  96%  of  the  Belgian  territory  of 
11,372  square  miles  was  held  by  the 
Germans,  with  all  the  coal  fields  and 
iron  mines. 

There  were  nearly  six  million  people  in 
practical  bondage  to  the  Germans  all 
of  whom  will  be  totally  unable  to  sup¬ 
port  life  unaided  for  a  number  of 
years  after  they  are  liberated. 

All  their  skilled  workers  have  been  de¬ 
ported  or  killed.  Their  soil  has  been 
devastated  to  a  depth  ranging  from 
10  to  18  feet;  much  has  been  defor¬ 
ested,  and  practically  all  the  land  rend- 


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ered  unfit  for  agricultural  work  for 
at  least  20  years. 

It  is  estimated  that  over  700,000  have 
been  killed  or  have  died  from  expo¬ 
sure  and  privation. 

More  than  300,000  Belgians  were  de¬ 
ported. 

Over  500,000  refugees  fled  the  country. 
One-half  of  them  were  received  in 
France,  180,000  in  England,  and  95,- 
000  in  Holland. 

Nearly  150,000  were  maimed  either  as 
fighting  men  or  as  civilians. 

There  are  1,500,000  destitute  Belgian 
children. 

There  were  300,000  French  refugees  in 
Belgium  driven  out  of  Northern 
France  by  the  Germans.  These  have 
been  cared  for  out  of  the  meager 
stores  of  the  impoverished  Belgians 
and  by  the  Commission  for  Relief  in 
Belgium. 

In  Belgium  approximately  twenty  thou¬ 
sand  buildings  have  been  destroyed, 
most  of  them  for  no  evident  mili¬ 
tary  reason. 

There  is  a  strong  Protestant  Church  in 
Belgium  though  this  has  usually  been 
considered  a  Roman  Catholic  coun¬ 
try- 

The  membership  consists  of  40,000  ad¬ 
herents. 

The  Protestant  Churches  are  passing 
through  a  fiery  trial.  Fighting  has 
taken  place  along  the  line  of  our  mis¬ 
sion  stations. 

The  houses  of  many  of  our  church 
members  have  been  destroyed.  Some 


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were  blown  up  because  they  were  in 
the  firing  lines  of  the  forts. 

The  task  of  restoration  in  its  every 
phase  must  be  shared  by  Methodism 
in  America. 

ITALY 

The  area  of  Italy  covers  110,550  square 
miles. 

Cost  of  war  to  Italy  has  been  nearly 
$10,000,000,000.  The  per  capita  debt  is 
$555.05. 

Killed— about  450,000. 

Maimed — about  550,000.  These  include 
50,000  tubercular  cases  returned  from 
Austria. 

Blinded — over  5,000.  These  and  the  tu¬ 
bercular  cases  are  being  cared  for  in 
Rome  and  in  Tunis. 

In  addition  to  the  prisoners  of  war, 
Italy  is  caring  for  over  200,000  Ser¬ 
bian  refugees. 

Italy’s  two  greatest  needs  at  the  pres¬ 
ent  are  education  and  a  free  church. 

In  1862  there  were  32,975  Protestants 
of  various  sects  in  Italy;  in  1901  there 
were  65,595;  1911,  the  number  had 
grown  to  123,253,  which  means  that 
in  ten  years  it  had  almost  doubled. 

Of  the  number  of  Italian  Protestants 
in  Italy  to-day  about  10,000  are  Meth¬ 
odists. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  already 
has  achieved  much  in  Italy  through 
educational  institutions,  of  which 
there  are  five  in  the  Rome  district 
alone.  There  is  an  industrial  school 
for  poor  boys  in  Venice.  The  Casa 


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Materna,  an  orphanage  in  Naples,  can 
accommodate  100  children. 

RUSSIA 

Russia  is  larger  than  all  the  other 
countries  of  Europe  combined.  From 
the  western  border  to  the  Behring 
Strait  or  Vladivostok  it  is  fully  6,000 
miles — a  two  weeks’  journey  on  the 
Trans-Siberian  railroad. 

According  to  the  latest  statistics  as  pub¬ 
lished  by  the  “Central  Statistical  Com¬ 
mittee”  in  1911  the  population  of  this 
great  Slavic  Empire  was  169,003,400. 

Before  the  war,  Russia  in  Europe  had 
a  population  of  123,618,700,  and  an 
area  of  1,887,028  square  miles.  By 
secession  and  conquest  Russia  has  lost 
about  20%  of  her  territory  and  25% 
of  her  people. 

4,000,000  Russians  have  been  killed  in 
this  war  including  those  lost  in  in¬ 
ternecine  warfare. 

10%  of  the  territory  devastated  has 
been  the  result  of  civil  warfare. 

Total  property  destroyed,  $875,000,000. 

There  are  more  than  25  different  na¬ 
tionalities  and  languages  within  the 
confines  of  this  empire.  Russians  about 
111,000,000;  Turks  and  Tartars  18,- 
000,000;  Poles  about  10,500,000;  Ugro- 
Finns,  including  Karelians  and  Es¬ 
tonians,  7,600,000;  Jews  more  than 
6,500,000 ;  Lithuanians  and  Letts  4,- 
000,000;  Germanic,  including  Swedes, 
2,700,000 ;  Cartwelians  1 ,850,000 ;  Cau-  ' 
casian  tribes  1,500,000;  Armenians  1,- 


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500,000 ;  Mongolians  about  700,000 ; 
other  nationalities  about  3,500,000. 

Three-fourths  of  the  169,000,000  Rus¬ 
sians  are  engaged  in  agriculture  and 
are  mostly  illiterate  peasants. 

Statistics  show  that  in  European  Rus¬ 
sia  alone  there  are  more  than  5,000,- 
000  births  a  year  with  some  3,000,000 
deaths,  thus  leaving  a  respectable 
margin  of  2,000,000  increase  in  popu¬ 
lation  annually. 

Religiously  Russia’s  169  millions  are 
grouped  approximately  as  follows : 

Greek  Orthodox  (Pravos- 


lavne)  . 118,000,000 

Mohammedans  .  18,000,000 

Roman  Catholic  . .  1 5,000,000 

Jews  . 6,500,000 

Protestants  .  8,000,000 

Other  Christians  . 1,500,000 

Other  non-Christians  .  850,000 


Theodore  Roosevelt  in  a  letter  to  Dr. 
John  R.  Mott  said:  “No  nation  so 
much  as  Russia  holds  the  fate  of  the 
coming  years.” 

Perhaps  no  other  nation  in  Europe  is 
in  greater  need  of  religious,  intellec¬ 
tual  and  social  assistance  than  this 
great  Empire  with  its  169,000,000,  less 
than  10,000,000  of  whom  have  ever 
heard  a  so-called  Gospel  sermon. 

Missionary  enterprise  is  carried  on 
through  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  in  Petrograd,  and  the  Russian- 
English  Christian  Advocate  is  pub¬ 
lished  there. 


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SWEDEN 

Sweden  has  an  area  of  172,000  square 
miles. 

The  Sweden  Conference  was  organized 
in  1876.  There  were  then  53  ministers, 
32  churches  and  5,663  members. 

Sweden  reports  153  members  of  Confer¬ 
ences;  181  local  preachers;  a  church 
membership  of  17,637;  18,863  children 
in  Sunday  Schools;  6,015  seniors  and 
4,128  juniors  in  Epworth  Leagues. 
Also  there  *  are  Methodist  Brother¬ 
hoods,  Deaconess  work  with  head¬ 
quarters  in  Stockholm  and  Gothen¬ 
burg;  a  theological  school,  a  book 
concern,  a  weekly  paper  for  the  Sun¬ 
day  school  and  one  for  the  Church, 
and  a  Young  People’s  Monthly.  For 
evangelical  work  in  Sweden  we  need 
$1,787.00. 

One  of  the  most  important  features  of 
our  work  in  Sweden  is  that  of  the 
Swedish  Theological  Seminary  at  Up- 
sala,  whose  graduates  become  pastors 
in  Sweden  and  Finland. 

NORWAY 

Norway  has  an  area  of  123,000  sauare 
miles.  Only  a  thousandth  part  of  the 
surface  can  be  cultivated.  The  Nor¬ 
way  Conference  was  organized  in  1876 
with  6  elders,  one  deacon,  8  proba¬ 
tioners  and  2,798  church  members. 

There  are  56  churches  in  Norway,  1 1 
of  which  are  self-supportiner. 


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DENMARK 

The  whole  country  is  so  flat  that  the 
highest  point  above  sea  level  is  560 
feet.  The  population  is  about  2,500,- 
000  and  one-fourth  of  these  live  in 
the  capital  city.  The  people  are  nom¬ 
inally  Protestant.  60%  of  the  people 
are  engaged  in  agriculture. 

A  Central  Mission  located  in  the  slum 
district  of  Copenhagen  looks  after  the 
down-and-outs  and  carries  on  an  em¬ 
ployment  agency,  a  bureau  of  adop¬ 
tion  for  poor  children,  and  a  day 
nursery. 

SWITZERLAND 

There  is  complete  and  absolute  liberty 
of  conscience  and  creed  in  Switzer¬ 
land.  No  one  is  bound  to  pay  taxes 
especially  appropriated  to  the  defray¬ 
ing  expenses  of  a  creed  to  which  he 
does  not  belong. 

Switzerland  has  an  area  of  16,000,000 
square  miles;  no  part  of  it  is  within 
100  miles  of  the  sea. 

The  arable  land  is  only  about  one-eighth 
of  the  whole  surface.  The  popula¬ 
tion  is  a  little  over  3,000,000.  Two- 
thirds  of  the  population  are  Protest¬ 
ant  and  one-third  Roman  Catholic. 

The  work  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  was  extended  in  1856  from 
Germany  to  Lausanne  and  Zurich. 

In  1886  the  Switzerland  Conference 
was  constituted  as  a  separate  organi¬ 
zation.  There  were  then  25  preachers 
in  full  connection  and  one  on  trial. 


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BULGARIA 

With  a  population  of  over  4,250,000, 
Bulgaria  contributed  for  the  time  she 
was  at  war  some  400,000  men.  Her 
casualties  were  over  10%  of  this  gross 
amount;  in  fact,  one  out  of  every 
hundred  men,  women  and  children 
were  killed.  The  population  is  mostly 
of  Slavic  origin. 

SERBIA 

Killed  (estimated)  :  Disease  killed  600,- 
000  in  one  year  of  the  war;  over 
400,000  later ;  22%,.  Another  1 ,000,- 
000  is  estimated  to  have  fallen.  22%. 

Refugees  (estimated)  :  200,000  refugees 
are  in  Italy,  4%. 

Territory  devastated  (estimated)  :  of 
the  approximate  34,000  square  miles 
about  20,000  have  been  ruined,  chiefly 
agricultural  and  grazing  lands,  58%. 

FINLAND 

Methodism  has  been  in  the  Grand- 
Duchy  of  Finland  for  thirty  years, 
and  for  fifteen  years  legally  estab¬ 
lished,  working  with  much  success 
among  the  Finns  and  Swedes,  while 
in  Russia  our  work  has  been  develop¬ 
ing  steadily  among  various  national¬ 
ities.  We  now  number  12  preachers, 
15  preaching  places,  6  chapels,  19 
Sunday  Schools  with  an  enrollment 
ofi  761,  and  a  Deaconess  Home  doing 
a  splendid  work  among  the  sick  and 
needy. 


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INDIA 


FACTS  TO  PONDER 

There  are  315,000,000  people  in  India, 
one-fifth  of  the  world’s  population. 

This  population  includes  217,000,000 
Hindus,  66,000,000  Mohammedans,  10,- 
000,000  Buddhists,  10,000,000  Animists, 
4,000,000  Christians  and  8,000,000  un¬ 
classified. 

India  embraces  1,802,657  square  miles. 

It  has  175  persons  to  the  square  mile. 
The  United  States  has  27. 

India  worships  330,000,000  deities  and 
has  5,500,000  Holy  Men,  who  live  by 
begging. 

The  members  of  more  than  30,000  castes 
and  sub-castes  in  India  cannot  eat  or 
drink  together,  intermarry  or  have 
any  form  of  intercourse. 

50,000,000  outcastes,  the  lower  caste, 
have  no  social  or  religious  privileges. 

Outcasts  are  not  permitted  to  enter  a 
temple  or  to  speak  the  name  of  the 
Indian  gods. 

India  gave  Buddhism  and  Hinduism  to 
the  world. 

The  woman  in  India  has  a  hard  lot. 

Baby  girls  are  never  welcomed  and  are 
often  murdered. 

The  girl  is  in  bondage  to  her  father. 

The  wife  must  give  absolute  obedience 
to  her  husband. 

The  widow  is  the  ward  of  her  sons. 

A  woman  is  regarded  unworthy  of  an 
education. 


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A  widow  suffers  every  obloquy,  her  head 
is  shaven,  she  is  deprived  of  her  jew¬ 
els,  and  clothed  in  coarse  garments. 

There  are  26  millions  of  these  widows. 

400,000  of  them  are  under  15  years  of 
age. 

Women  have  had  a  large  part  in  medi¬ 
cal  work  in  India,  for  they  alone  can 
reach  the  women  secluded  in  the 
Zcnsnss 

India  has  730,000  villages  in  which  80 
per  cent  of  its  population  live. 

Filth  and  unspeakable  immorality  char¬ 
acterize  many  of  these  villages. 

There  is  little  knowledge  of  sanitation. 

The  missionary  doctor  has  to  work 
against  heavy  odds  of  superstition  and 
fear. 

The  village  farmers  scratch  the  top  of 
the  soil  with  antiquated  wooden  plows. 

Millions  are  always  hungry  in  a  rich 
land  which  raises  two  crops  a  year. 

The  average  annual  income  per  capita  is 
$9.00. 

ILLITERACY’S  CHALLENGE 

India’s  illiteracy  is  a  challenge  to  Chris¬ 
tian  education. 

288,000,000  are  unable  to  read  or  write. 

Ignorance  and  superstition  abound. 

In  the  intellectual  and  religious  unrest 
among  the  student  class  of  India  there 
is  a  real  opportunity. 

Education  is  one  of  the  greatest  needs 
of  India. 

In  its  train  follow  social  elevation  and 
relaxation  of  caste. 


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A  strong  type  of  educated  Christian 
leadership  is  needed. 

Schools  for  girls  and  widows  are 
being  established. 

A  Hindu  Woman’s  University  is  plan- 
ned. 

54,000,000  people  in  India  are  depend¬ 
ent  on  the  Methodists  of  America  for 
the  blessings  that  accrue  from  being 
able  to  read  and  write. 

SIGNS  OF  A  NEW  DAY 

The  dominating  fact  in  the  life  of  In¬ 
dia  to-day  is  a  new  national  con¬ 
sciousness. 

In  politics  it  is  a  movement  towards 
national  unity,  democracy  and  self- 
government. 

In  social  life  it  is  a  striving  to  break 
the  fetters  of  caste. 

In  the  religious  life  its  most  striking 
expression  is  in  the  Mass  Movement 
toward  Christianity. 

India’s  new  national  consciousness  pre¬ 
sents  to  the  Christian  Church  an  in¬ 
creased  need  and  opportunity. 

Christianity  has  that  for  which  India  is 
seeking. 

An  active  spirit  of  social  reform  is 
abroad. 

India  sent  1,500,000  fighting  men  into 
the  World  War. 

These  men  will  return  with  new  vision 
and  demands. 

The  caste  system  received  a  heavy  bom¬ 
bardment  of  common  sense  on  the 
firing  line  in  France. 


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The  business  of  Christianity  in  India  to¬ 
day  is  to  quicken  the  spiritual  forces 
which  are  the  soul  of  liberty  and 
progress. 

During  the  past  ten  years  Buddhists  in¬ 
creased  1 1  per  cent,  Mohammedans  6 
per  cent,  Hindus  4  per  cent  and 
Protestant  Indian  Christians  48  per 
cent. 

THE  MASS  MOVEMENT 

The  Mass  Movement  of  the  lowest 
classes  in  India  toward  Christianity 
is  the  greatest  missionary  phenomenon 
since  the  Christian  Church  was 
founded. 

It  is  the  dominating  fact  in  the  mis¬ 
sionary  situation  in  India  to-day. 

Entire  villages  are  seeking  Christ. 

The  daily  wage  of  the  members  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  who  have 
come  in  through  the  Mass  Move¬ 
ment  averages  3  cents. 

They  labor  under  pitiless  social  oppres¬ 
sion. 

They  live  in  small  mud  houses. 

They  sleep  on  the  ground. 

Millions  eat  only  one  meal  a  day. 

The  outcasts  are  allowed  to  own  only 
a  broken  dish,  a  hoe  and  a  donkey. 

Toil,  burdens,  injustice,  plagues,  hunger 
and  pain  are  their  heritage. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  alone 
baptized  40,000  in  1915.  At  present  it 
is  baptizing  1,000  a  week. 

In  1918  over  150,000  were  refused  bap¬ 
tism  for  lack  of  Christian  teachers. 


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There  are  6,000,000  now  asking  for  in¬ 
struction  and  Christian  baptism. 

If  they  are  refused  baptism  they  will 
become  hostile  to  Christianity. 

If  baptized  without  instruction  they  will 
become  a  menace. 

If  furnished  teachers  and  pastors  they 
will  become  a  strong,  intelligent 
Church. 

A  million  a  year  might  be  baptized  if 
pastoral  care  and  teaching  could  be 
provided. 

Many  outcastes  are  to-day  India’s  lead¬ 
ing  educators,  preachers,  lawyers,  doc¬ 
tors,  civil  engineers,  contractors  and 
merchants,  because  of  Christianity. 

Their  homes  are  modern  and  compare 
favorably  with  those  of  their  high 
caste  neighbors. 

Along  each  of  the  avenues  of  approach, 
education,  medicine  and  straight  evan¬ 
gelistic  work,  the  Mass  Movement 
is  an  insistent  challenge. 

METHODISM  IN  INDIA 

Methodism  began  its  work  in  India  in 
a  cow  stable  in  1856. 

There  are  now  335,000  members  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in  India. 

Of  every  100  of  these  16  can  read. 

60.000  Methodist  children  are  without 
schools. 

There  are  20,000  Epworth  Leaguers  and 
139,000  Sunday  School  pupils. 

The  educated  classes  are  great  readers. 

Christian  literature  of  a  high  type  is 
needed  in  large  quantities. 


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The  Methodist  Episcopal  press  at  Luck¬ 
now  and  at  Madras  has  a  remarkable 
record  of  services  in  seven  languages. 

There  is  a  great  demand  for  books  in 
the  vernacular  for  Christian  converts, 
text-books  for  Methodist  schools,  and 
books  which  will  convey  to  non- 

Christians  the  essential  truths  of 
Christian  faith. 

WHAT  THE  METHODIST  EPISCO¬ 
PAL  CHURCH  HAS  IN  INDIA 

19  18 

Property — 

No.  Valuation 

Churches,  chapels,  par¬ 
sonages,  homes .  823  $920,994 

Educational  institutions 
and  presses .  62 

Hospitals  and  dispen¬ 
saries  .  4 

1,449,739 

Total  property  .  $2,370,733 

Staff — 

235  Missionaries  of  the  Board — 
men,  121;  women,  114 
74  Anglo-Indian  assistants 
6,254  Native  preachers  and  workers 
2,713  Teachers 


Students  and  pupils .  40,588 

Membership  .  337.728 

Sunday  School  scholars .  139,537 

Epworth  League  members .  19,598 

Unbaptized  adherents . ...Not  given 


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THE  CENTENARY  PROGRAM  IN 

INDIA 


1918-1 922 

Property — 


275  Rural  chapels . 

450  Preachers’  houses . 

45  Missionary  residences. . . . 

Land  for  above . 

100  Village  schools . 

1 ,000  T eachers’  houses . . 

15  Missionary  residences... 
“The  Butler  Memorial” — - 
Delhi  Mission  Center. . 
Added  plant  for  Second¬ 
ary  High  and  Theologi¬ 
cal  Schools  and  for  the 

Lucknow  College . j 

Improvement  and  devel¬ 
opment  of  three  hospi¬ 
tals  and  a  dispensary. . 

Total  property  and  equip- 


$1,117,262 


M, 554, 951 


47,500 


ment  . . 
Endowment 


$2,719,713 

$1,247,000 


Staff  and  Maintenance — 

1,050  Native  workers . . 

74  Missionaries  .  $906,876 

1 ,300  Rural  teachers . 

20  Missionaries  . 717,490 

14  Native  workers  —  nurses 

and  others . 

4  Missionaries — doctors  and 

nurses  .  33,490 

Total  staff  and  mainte¬ 
nance  . $1,657,856 

Total  requirements . $5,624,569 

From  local  receipts .  279,787 

From  home  base .  5,344,782 


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INVESTMENTS  IN  INDIA 


$20  supports  an  orphan  in  school  a  year. 

$25  supports  a  boy  in  boarding  school 
a  year. 

$35  buys  a  bicycle  for  a  village  pastor. 

$35  supports  a  college  student  for  a  year. 

$50  pays  salary  of  a  primary  teacher  for 
a  year. 

$50  supports  a  Bible  training  school  stu¬ 
dent  a  year. 

$60  pays  a  village  pastor’s  salary  for  a 
year. 

$60  sends  a  gospel  to  6  or  8  pleading  vil¬ 
lages. 

$100  supports  a  village  primary  school  a 
year. 

$100  builds  a  village  church. 

$200  supports  an  ordained  preacher  a 
year. 

$200  builds  a  village  school  building. 

$250  pays  the  salary  of  an  Indian  Dis¬ 
trict  Superintendent  a  year. 

$500  builds  a  modern  “Circuit  Center” — 
Institutional  church. 

$2,000  builds  a  grammar  school  building. 

$5,000— $10,000  builds  a  high  school 
building. 

$600  equips  a  high  school  laboratory. 

$500 — $1,000  builds  a  school  dormitory. 

$2,000 — $4,000  builds  a  memorial  church, 
buys  a  motorcycle  or  a  Ford  car,  and 
doubles  a  missionary’s  efficiency. 

$600  endows  a  high  school  scholarship. 

$800  endows  a  college  scholarship. 

$8,000  endows  a  headmastership  in  a 
Christian  school. 


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JAPAN 

THINGS  TO  KNOW 

The  area  of  Japan  equals  148,756  square 
miles. 

The  population  includes  54,000,000  people. 

The  Japanese  are  hard  workers. 

They  are  ambitious,  aggressive,  cour¬ 
teous,  self-reliant  and  economical. 

Japan  is  a  world  factor. 

It  is  the  land  of  achievement. 

It  occupies  a  position  of  leadership 
throughout  Asia  to-day. 

In  the  World  War  Japan  presented  the 
curious  spectacle  of  a  feudal  and  auto¬ 
cratic  nation  ostensibly  fighting  to 
make  the  world  safe  for  democracy. 

Efficiency  is  Japan’s  watchword,  success 
its  purpose. 

Yesterday  Japan  copied  other  nations. 

To-day  Japan  is  discovering  and  invent¬ 
ing. 

The  army,  police  and  medical  systems 
are  modelled  after  Germany. 

The  judicial  system  comes  from  France. 

Intensive  farming  was  learned  from 
China. 

Japan  modelled  its  telegraph,  postal  and 
banking  systems  after  America. 

The  navy  and  merchant  marine  is  of 
English  pattern. 

IN  EDUCATION 

The  teaching  of  religion,  and  ethics 
founded  on  religion,  is  prohibited  in 
the  schools. 

The  schools  teach  patriotism  and  loyalty 


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without  giving  them  a  reasonable  and 
fundamental  basis. 

Japan  has  a  system  of  universal  educa¬ 
tion  which  enrolls  98  per  cent  of  the 
children  of  school  age. 

Thousands  of  students  from  China,  Ko¬ 
rea,  the  Philippines  and  India  come 
to  her  schools  and  colleges,  making 
these  islands  a  strategic  point  for 
Christianity. 

Out  of  thirty  thousand  of  college  grade 
in  Tokyo,  nine-tenths  definitely  en¬ 
rolled  themselves  as  without  religion. 

Among  the  influential  student  class  ag¬ 
nosticism,  selfishness,  and  materialism 
are  destructive  forces. 

There  is  a  Protestant  communion  of 
150,000  members  in  Japan. 

Great  Christian  missionaries  had  much 
to  do  with  launching  the  new  educa¬ 
tional  system  in  Japan. 

The  demand  for  admittance  to  Chris¬ 
tian  schools  and  colleges  is  greater 
than  can  be  granted. 

The  Aoyama  Gakuin  at  Tokyo  provides 
collegiate,  theological  and  preparatory 
training  for  six  hundred  Christian 
students. 

Western  industry  and  commerce,  which 
break  down  old  moral  restraints  with¬ 
out  bringing  any  new  moral  or  re¬ 
ligious  power,  is  the  “White  Disaster” 
for  Japan. 

INDUSTRIAL  AWAKENINGS 

The  shriek  of  Japan’s  factory  whistles 
may  herald  only  a  curse  to  Japan  and 
the  East. 


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The  number  of  factories  in  Japan  in¬ 
creased  from  125  to  20,000  in  34  years. 

A  vigorous  moral  and  social  conscience 
is  needed  to  protest  against  the 
waste  and  cruelty  of  child  labor  in 
Japan. 

Nothing  but  the  Christian  conception  of 
the  worth  of  the  individual  will  save 
Japan  from  the  wide  destructiveness 
of  modern  machinery  driven  by  com¬ 
mercial  greed. 

One-half  of  Japan’s  industries  are  con¬ 
ducted  with  modern  machinery. 

The  majority  of  female  workers  are 
under  twenty  years  of  age. 

More  people  die  yearly  of  tuberculosis 
in  Japan  than  were  killed  in  the 
Russo-Japanese  War. 

Government  statistics  declare  that  out 
of  every  100  girls  to  enter  factory 
work,  23  die  within  one  year  of  their 
return  home,  and  53  per  cent  of 
these  die  of  tuberculosis. 

Among  the  tragic  factory  laws  of  Japan 
is  this :  “Little  children  shall  not  work 
before  four  in  the  morning  nor  after 
ten  at  night.  Women  may  not  work 
more  than  12  hours  a  day,  except  in 
unusual  circumstances.” 

Notwithstanding  the  small  percentage 
of  arable  territory  in  Japan  sixty  per 
cent  of  the  population  is  directly  en¬ 
gaged  in  agriculture. 

RELIGION  IN  JAPAN 

The  gods  and  goddesses  of  Shinto,  the 
primitive  religion  of  Japan,  number 
8,000,000. 


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Shinto  is  the  religion  of  the  majority 
of  the  upper  classes. 

Buddism  is  the  strongest  rival  of  Chris¬ 
tianity  in  Japan. 

Pessimism  is  the  keynote  of  Buddhism. 

It  came  to  Japan  1,500  years  ago  from 
China  by  way  of  Korea. 

Temples  of  Buddha  are  full  of  ritual, 
ceremony,  candles,  incense,  images 
and  processions. 

No  force  could  be  introduced  into  Japan 
so  strong  and  beneficent  as  Chris¬ 
tianity. 

Out  of  55,000,000  people  there  are  only 
about  150,000  native  Protestant  Chris¬ 
tians  in  Japan. 

26,000,000  are  absolutely  untouched  by 
the  Word  of  God. 

Millions  have  never  heard  Christian 
teaching. 

In  the  last  three  years  1,200,000  copies 
of  the  Bible  were  sold  in  Japan. 

*  METHODISM  IN  JAPAN 

Methodism  in  Japan  is  in  a  unique  posi¬ 
tion,  unmatched  in  any  other  land. 

The  Japanese  Methodist  Church  was 
formed  in  1907  out  of  members  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  South, 
and  the  Canadian  Methodist  Church. 

The  Japanese  Methodist  Church  grew 
out  of  Church  unity  in  the  field  and 
the  rise  of  the  native  church  to  self- 
direction  and  self-support. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  con¬ 
tributed  45  churches  and  5,500  mem¬ 
bers. 


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The  Japanese  Methodist  Church  has 
1 9,570  communicants,  384  Japanese 
workers,  134  ordained  ministers,  177 
churches  and  34,384  enrolled  in  its 
Sunday  Schools. 

While  the  number  of  Sunday  School 
scholars  has  increased  over  three  and 
a  half  times  in  fourteen  years  there 
is  still  only  one  child  in  fifty  con¬ 
nected  with  a  Sunday  School. 

The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has  in 
Japan  two  schools  and  one  publish¬ 
ing  house,  with  a  total  property  valua¬ 
tion  of  $270,000 ;  forty-one  mission¬ 
aries  ;  forty  native  teachers,  and  1,051 
students  and  pupils. 

THE  CENTENARY  PROGRAM  IN 
JAPAN  AND  KOREA 
1918-1922 

Property — 

46  Churches — Japan 

48  Churches — Korea  * 

10  Parsonages — Japan 
12  Mission  Houses  and  Residences — 
Japan 

3  Missionary  Residences — Korea 

$453,865 

Additional  Buildings  and  equip¬ 
ment  for 

9  Primary  Schools — Korea 
3  High  Schools — Korea 
1  High  School  (Chinzei) — Japan 
1  Christian  College  (Chosen) — Korea 
1  Christian  College  (Aoyama) — Japan 
1  Union  Theological  Seminary — Ko¬ 
rea 


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2  Bible  Institutes — Korea 

1  Publishing  House — Japan 

$944,339 

Additional  Buildings  and  Equip¬ 
ment  for 

4  Hospitals — Korea 

2  Dispensaries — Korea 

I  Union  Medical  College — Korea 

$58,730 


Total  property  and  equip¬ 
ment  . $1,456,934 

Endowment  .  641,500 

Staff  and  Maintenance — 

18  Missionaries — Japan 
12  Missionaries — Korea 
81  Native  Preachers — Japan 

$269,582 

18  Native  Teachers — Japan 
17  Native  Teachers — Korea 

174,878 

4  Doctors — Korea 
3  Nurses — Korea 
24  Native  Assistants — Korea 

63,834 


Total  staff  and  maintenance  $508,294 

Total  requirements  . $2,606,728 

From  local  receipts  ....  267,683 

From  home  base  .  2,339,045 

INVESTMENTS  IN  JAPAN  AND 
KOREA 

$50  will  support  a  boy  in  boarding 
school  for  a  year. 

$75  will  give  a  year’s  scholarship  in 
theological  school. 


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$125  will  pay  the  yearly  salary  of  a 
Korean  teacher. 

$500  will  buy  needed  laboratory  equip¬ 
ment. 

$600  will  build  a  Bible  Institute  which 
will  become  self-supporting. 

$800  will  build  a  dormitory  in  a  Korean 
school. 

$2,000  will  build  a  residence  for  foreign 
teachers. 

$25  will  organize  a  Sunday  School  and 
maintain  it  for  a  year. 

$100  will  support  a  Bible  woman  for  a 
year. 

$125  will  support  a  native  preacher  for 
a  year. 

$650  will  build  a  church  in  Korea. 

$50  will  furnish  a  free  bed  in  a  mis¬ 
sion  hospital. 

$100  will  aid  in  the  purchase  of  instru¬ 
ments. 

$250  will  build  a  ward  in  a  hospital. 

$350  will  build  a  home  for  nurses  in 
training. 

$1,200  will  equip  a  dispensary. 

$2,000  will  buy  an  X-ray  machine. 

$50  will  support  a  boarding  school  pupil. 

$75  provides  a  scholarship  in  a  theo¬ 
logical  school. 

$10,000  will  build  a  high  school  or  col¬ 
lege  dormitory. 

$50,000  will  build  a  college  building. 


v 


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KOREA 

THE  WAY  TO  THE  EAST 

Seoul,  the  capital  of  Korea,  is  48  hours 
from  Tokyo  and  46  from  Peking. 

Korea  includes  84,000  square  miles. 

It  has  16,500,000  people. 

A  quarter  of  a  million  of  them  are 
Christian. 

The  peninsula  of  Korea,  with  its  out¬ 
lying  islands,  is  nearly  equal  in  size 
to  Minnesota  or  Great  Britain. 

Korea  has  been  almost  exclusively  an 
agricultural  nation. 

All  overland  travel  before  1900  was  on 
foot,  by  chair  or  on  the  back  of  a 
pony. 

The  trend  of  the  present-day  Korea  is 
to  industrialism. 

Beet-sugar  factories,  iron  refineries,  pa¬ 
per  mills,  leather  factories,  and  other 
industries  make  Korea  a  fertile  field 
for  manufacturers  to  cultivate. 

This  new  development  brings  with  it 
a  gripping  problem. 

Only  the  Christian  spirit  among  em¬ 
ployers  can  prevent  Korean  women 
and  children  suffering  from  factory 
evils. 

Arithmetic  and  higher  mathematics, 
geography,  grammar  and  natural  sci¬ 
ence  were  first  introduced  into  Korea 
by  the  Christian  schools. 

Through  Christian  influence  early  mar¬ 
riage  is  now,  at  least  theoretically, 
forbidden  by  law. 


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AN  EDUCATIONAL 
OPPORTUNITY 


The  Koreans  are  keen,  intelligent,  and 
eager  for  education. 

Modern  schools  are  increasing  in  Ko¬ 
rean  cities. 

These  State  schools  cover  the  first  four 
years  only  and  can  accommodate  but 
10  per  cent  of  the  children  of  school 
age. 

In  most  of  Korea’s  1,584  native  schools 
the  basis  of  study  is  still  the  Chinese 
classics. 

Korea  must  have  trained  native  leader¬ 
ship. 

Schools  are  necessary  for  this  training. 

The  government  has  separate  schools 
for  Koreans  and  Japanese. 

Korea  depends  on  Church  schools  for 
its  leaders. 

Until  Christian  missions  entered  Chosen 
less  than  ten  per  cent  of  the  popu¬ 
lation  and  practically  all  the  women 
were  illiterate. 

The  Koreans  love  education  above  all 
things. 

The  Korean  youth  needs  an  education 
that  banishes  indolence,  the  bane  of 
Korea-of-the-past. 

Industrial  education  in  Christian  and 
Government  schools  is  fast  overcom¬ 
ing  this  condition. 

T1-e  tradition  of  woman’s  isolation  in 
Korea  has  in  the  past  shut  her  off 
from  the  opportunities  of  education. 

Mission  schools,  with  their  emphasis 
on  the  dignity  and  position  of  wo- 


58 


men,  have  opened  a  new  door  for 
her. 

To-day  several  thousand  Korean  girls 
are  in  school,  being  trained  to  a  sense 
of  neatness,  cleanliness  and  industrial 
skill. 


PHYSICIANS  NEEDED 

Korea’s  history  is  blotted  by  the  ravages 
of  disease. 

Cholera,  typhus,  smallpox  and  the  bu¬ 
bonic  plague  formerly  carried  off 
thousands  yearly. 

There  are  still  in  Korea  many  boys 
whose  bodies  are  marked  with  scars 
made  by  native  doctors  who  burned 
the  skin  with  red-hot  punk  to  cure 
the  devils. 

The  mission  schools  and  hospitals  have 
now  almost  driven  these  quacks  out 
of  business. 

Sanitary  laws  and  official  control  over 
food,  drink  and  drugs  have  made  a 
new  Korea. 

The  Swedish  Methodist  Episcopal  Hos¬ 
pital  at  Wonju  provides  the  only 
Christian  doctor  among  400,000  people. 

There  is  only  one  other  trained  physi¬ 
cian  in  an  area  of  9,000  square  miles. 

Medicine  is  one  of  Korea’s  great  needs. 

Less  than  2,000,000  Koreans  know 
what  a  hospital  means. 

Spirits  and  disease  are  inextricably  en¬ 
tangled  in  the  Korean’s  mind. 

Three  Korean  babies  out  of  every  five 
die  in  babyhood. 


59 


KOREA’S  RELIGION 

The  religion  of  Korea  is  a  mixture  of 
ancestor  worship,  Animism,  Taoism 
and  Buddhism. 

There  are  more  gods  than  people  in 
Korea. 

The  natives  are  in  constant  fear  of  the 
wrath  of  some  of  these  gods. 

The  all-round  Korean,  when  in  society 
is  a  Confucianist,  a  Buddhist  when 
he  philosophizes,  and  a  spirit-wor¬ 
shiper  when  he  is  in  trouble. 

Dragons,  devils,  elves,  imps  and  gob¬ 
lins  enliven  the  religion  of  Korea. 

The  Christian  Korean  has  constructed 
a  pocket  in  his  clothing,  known  as  “the 
Bible  pocket.” 

The  native  Christians,  especially  in  the 
small  towns,  will  make  sharp  sacri¬ 
fices  out  of  their  few  cents’  daily 
wage  to  lift  a  mortgage  from  their 
modest  little  church. 

In  no  country  has  it  been  more  evident 
that  the  work  of  Christian  missions 
has  paid  than  in  Korea. 

TO  INFLUENCE  THREE  NATIONS 

The  customs,  superstitions  and  religions 
of  both  China  and  Japan  have  influ¬ 
enced  Korea. 

Every  dollar  invested  in  Christian  mis¬ 
sions  in  Korea  serves  there  and  in 
Japan. 

Chinese:  students  returning  from  Chris¬ 
tian  countries  are  watching  Korea. 

The  spirit  of  materialism  is  abroad  in 
both  Japan  and  Korea. 


60 


Christianity  must  meet  Japan’s  best  to 
overcome  this  danger. 

A  strongly  Christianized  people  in 
Korea  will  open  up  undreamed-of  pos¬ 
sibilities  in  China. 

It  will  affect  Japan  tremendously. 

WHAT  THE  METHODIST  EPISCO¬ 
PAL  CHURCH  HAS  IN  KOREA 

1918 

Property — 

No.  Valua- 


Churches,  chapels,  parson-  tion 

ages,  homes  . 596  $95,529 

Educational  institutions  and 

presses . 11 

Hospitals  and  dispensaries. .  4  296,411 


Total  property  .  $391,940 


Staff — 

41  Missionaries  and  foreign  workers 
689  Native  preachers  and  workers 


437  Teachers. 

1,167  Total  staff 

Students  and  pupils  .  7,899 

Membership  . .24,069 

Sunday  School  scholars . 33,249 


Epworth  League  members . 

Not  given 

Unbaptized  adherents  . 

Not  given 

THE  CENTENARY  PROGRAM 
IN  KOREA 

(See  page  54.) 


61 


MALAYSIA 


WHERE  RACES  ARE  A-MAKING 

Malaysia  includes  the  Malay  Peninsula 
and  the  surrounding  islands  in  South¬ 
eastern  Asia. 

Malaysia  could  maintain  ten  times  its 
present  population. 

More  than  one-half  the  world’s  supply 
of  tin  comes  from  the  Malay  penin¬ 
sula. 

The  Peninsula  is  also  the  leading  coun¬ 
try  in  the  production  of  cultivated 
rubber. 

The  wealth  of  Malaysia  attracts  about 
500,000  immigrants  every  year  from 
southern  China  and  southern  India. 

These  fuse  with  the  Malays. 

The  Chinese  become  the  merchants,  and 
much  of  the  business  of  the  archipel¬ 
ago  is  in  their  hands. 

The  Indians  are  interested  chiefly  in  ag¬ 
riculture. 

The  “wild  man  of  Borneo”  still  exists 
in  the  savage  Dyak. 

Sixty-nine  languages  and  dialects  are 
employed  in  Singapore  alone. 

This  meeting-place  of  the  East  and 
West — Singapore — is  the  strategic 
point  in  Malaysia. 

Singapore  is  the  third  port  of  the 
Orient,  and  even  before  the  war  sur¬ 
passed  Liverpool’s  yearly  shipping  rec¬ 
ord  by  1,000,000  tons. 

European  and  allied  races  own  or  con¬ 
trol  the  big  business  of  the  city. 


62 


Sanitation  is  unknown  in  Malaysia. 

BO  per  cent  of  the  Javanese  are  victims 
of  some  disease. 

The  Methodists  have  a  hospital  in  Java 
— the  only  one  in  Malaysia — and  a 
doctor  in  West  Borneo. 

The  Dutch  Government  has  offered  to 
pay  three-fourths  of  the  cost  of  build¬ 
ing  hospitals  and  to  provide  for  their 
upkeep  if  the  Methodist  Mission  will 
furnish  the  doctors  and  nurses. 

EDUCATION  IN  MALAYSIA 

A  circle  around  Singapore  with  a  ra¬ 
dius  of  1,200  miles  would  take  in  a 
population  of  over  60,000,000  people, 
yet  in  that  area  there  is  no  school 
of  college  grade. 

Probably  about  five  per  cent  of  the  na¬ 
tive  Malay  men  can  read  and  write, 
not  more  than  one  per  cent  of  the 
women. 

Two-thirds  of  all  the  scholars  in  the 
schools  are  Chinese. 

The  usual  type  of  Malay  school  is  a 
hoax. 

It  is  conducted  by  a  Moslem  who  man¬ 
aged  to  learn  the  Arabic  alphabet  and 
to  recite,  without  understanding,  parts 
of  the  Koran. 

This  entitled  this  man  to  visit  Mecca, 
whence  he  returns  a  sacred  person¬ 
age  in  the  eyes  of  the  ignorant. 

He  profits  by  this  superstition  and  there¬ 
after  does  nothing  but  extract  large 
fees  from  the  natives  for  his  so-called 
schooling. 


63 


The  most  popular  grammar  of  the  Ma¬ 
lay  language,  and  the  only  complete 
English-Malay  dictionary,  was  written 
by  Dr.  W.  C.  Shellabear,  for  twenty- 
five  years  a  Methodist  missionary  in 
Malaysia  and  probably  the  foremost 
Malay  scholar. 

The  Anglo-Chinese  School,  founded  by 
Bishop  W.  F.  Oldham  when  he  went 
as  a  pioneer  Methodist  missionary  to 
Singapore,  is  now  the  largest  educa¬ 
tional  institution  in  the  Far  East,  out¬ 
side  of  Japan. 

Now  even  the  Dyaks  are  asking  for 
schools  and  the  Government  has 
agreed  to  erect  buildings  if  the  Mis¬ 
sions  will  supply  native  teachers. 

The  same  offer,  however,  has  been  made 
to  the  Arabs,  who  will  seize  the  op¬ 
portunity  to  extend  Mohammedanism, 
if  Christians  do  not  respond  first. 


THE  RELIGIOUS  SITUATION 

It  is  estimated  that  there  are  30,000,- 
000  Mohammedans  in  the  archipelago, 
practically  all  native  Malays. 

With  a  population  of  306,000,  Singapore, 
the  radiating  center  of  Malaysia,  has 
only  three  Methodist  churches. 

The  Methodists  are  the  only  American 
missionaries  in  Malaysia. 

Probably  not  more  than  one-fourth  of 
the  expenses  of  the  Malaysia  Mission 
has  been  supplied  by  the  home  treas¬ 
ury,  for  the  institutions  are  practi¬ 
cally  self-supporting. 


64 


WHAT  THE  METHODIST  EPISCO¬ 
PAL  CHURCH  HAS  IN  MALAYSIA 

1918 


Property — 


No.  Valuation 

Churches,  parsonages,  chap¬ 
els,  homes . 65  $147,629 

Educational  institutions  and 

presses  . 18 

Hospitals  and  dispensaries.  1  309,903 


Total  property  .  $457,532 


Staff — 

84  Missionaries  and  foreign  workers 
140  Native  preachers  and  workers 
301  Teachers 


525  Total  staff 

Students  and  pupils . ...7,588 

Membership  . .....4,443 

Sunday  School  scholars . 4,669 

Epworth  League  members .  818 

Unbaptized  adherents  . .1,5 59 


THE  CENTENARY  PROGRAM 
IN  MALAYSIA 

1918-1922 

Property  and  Equipment — 

25  Chapels  . 

14  Missionary  residences  and 

parsonages  . 

Land  for  above .  $228,400 

18  Village  schools . 

7  Boys’  boarding  schools . 

1  Orphanage  and  preparatory 
school  . 


65 


I  High  school  . 

1  College . 

2  Theological  schools . 

5  Teachers’  residences . 

$478,700 

10  Hospitals  . 

2  Doctors’  houses . 

$185,000 

Total  property  and  equip¬ 
ment  .  $892,100 

Endowment  .  400,000 


Staff  and  Maintenance — 

27  Native  preachers . 

20  Missionaries  . 


10  Pastor-teachers  .  .  , 

1  Missionary  teacher 

10  Doctors . 

2  Native  workers. .. . 


$184,660 

13,850 

64,860 


Total  staff  and  mainte¬ 


nance  .  $263,370 

Total  requirements . $1,555,470 

From  local  receipts .  382.520 

From  home  base .  1,172,950 


INVESTMENTS  IN  MALAYSIA 

$200  with  the  assistance  of  the  natives 
will  build  a  parsonage. 

$250  will  aid  the  natives  in  paying  the 
yearly  salary  of  a  preacher. 

$800  will  take  care  *)f  a  Chinese  preach¬ 
er  for  a  year. 


66 


$850  will  buy  an  automobile  for  an  itin¬ 
erating  preacher. 

$1,000  with  the  aid  of  the  natives  will 
build  a  church. 

$2,000  will  buy  a  motor  boat  for  use  in 
the  islands. 

$40  will  support  a  student  in  Bible 
training  school  for  a  year. 

$200  will  open  a  village  primary  school. 

$300  will  aid  in  the  translation  and  pub¬ 
lication  of  needed  books. 

$850  will  pay  the  salary  of  a  native 
teacher  in  Anglo-Chinese  College. 

$2,000  will  build  a  preparatory  school. 

$2,100  will  pay  the  yearly  salary  of  a 
foreign  preacher. 

$1,000  will  be  our  part  toward  the  hos¬ 
pital  at  Pontianak. 

$1,000  will  be  our  part  toward  the  hos¬ 
pital  at  Palenbang. 

$2,500  will  be  our  part  toward  the  hos¬ 
pital  at  Bandjor. 

$3,000  will  be  our  part  toward  the  hos¬ 
pital  at  Boemiajoe. 

$4,000  will  be  our  part  toward  the  hos¬ 
pital  at  Atjeh. 

$10,000  will  be  our  part  toward  the  hos¬ 
pital  at  Soerabaja. 


67 


MEXICO 

OUR  SOUTHERN  NEIGHBOR 

Mexico  will  be  a  source  of  ceaseless 
anxiety  to  the  people  of  the  United 
States  until  its  national  thinking  and 
ideals  are  brought  to  higher  levels. 

The  salvation  of  Mexico  is  not  applica¬ 
tion  of  force  from  outside  but  the 
development  of  new  forces  on  the  in¬ 
side. 

The  only  solution  of  the  Mexican  prob¬ 
lem  is  an  invasion  of  Christian  preach¬ 
ers,  teachers  and  physicians,  the  es¬ 
tablishment  of  churches,  schools  and 
hospitals,  in  order  to  enable  Mexico 
to  realize  her  own  destiny  of  self- 
government,  and  moral  and  spiritual 
progress. 

The  United  States  Government  spent 
money  enough  in  the  patrol  of  the 
Mexican  border  the  first  six  months 
of  military  occupation  to  build  a  col¬ 
lege,  a  hospital,  a  church  and  a  social 
settlement,  all  magnificently  equipped, 
in  every  town  of  over  4,000  in  the  Re¬ 
public  of  Mexico  and  to  provide  for 
their  maintenance  for  ten  years. 

Mexico  has  15  millions  of  people. 
Eighty  per  cent  are  illiterate  and  un¬ 
used  to  democratic  institutions  such  as 
ours. 


68 


Both  the  aboriginal  inhabitants,  the 
Indians,  and  the  mixed  race  of 
Spanish  and  Indian  stock,  are  peons. 

They  are  attached  to  estates  frequently 
a  million  acres  in  extent. 

They  have  no  land  of  their  own  and  are 
kept  in  ignorance  and  poverty. 

These  people  often  become  bandits. 

Among  such  illiterate  people  there 
can  be  no  intelligent  public  opinion 
to  make  possible  a  stable  representa¬ 
tive  government. 

Schools  are  few  in  number,  and  even 
in  peace  times  no  attempt  is  made  by 
the  Mexican  government  to  overcome 
illiteracy. 

Among  the  Indians,  who  constitute  40 
per  cent  of  the  population,  educa¬ 
tion  is  unknown. 

Mexico  has  suffered  greatly  from  re¬ 
volution,  famine  and  disease. 

Mexico  is  in  a  state  of  debt,  slavery  and 
peonage. 

90%  of  the  land  is  held  by  a  small  frac¬ 
tion  of  the  population. 

In  Mexico  the  Roman  Catholic  Church 
has  been  the  relentless  foe  of  free 
thought  and  speech,  of  a  free  press 
and  free  public  schools. 

It  has  been  the  agent  of  the  rule  of 
oppression  and  the  means  of  exploit¬ 
ing  the  people. 

Foreign  religious  leaders,  under  the  new 
constitution,  priests  or  ministers,  are 
not  allowed  to  do  religious  work  in 
the  country. 


69 


This  provision  is  designed  to  kill  the  po¬ 
litical  influence  of  the  Roman  Catho¬ 
lic  Church. 

It  has  not  interfered  with  Protestant  re¬ 
ligious  work. 

Protestant  ministers  are  not  allowed  to 
administer  the  sacraments  but  may  re¬ 
main  in  Mexico  and  teach,  preach,  and 
publish  literature. 

Superstition  and  immorality  are  inter¬ 
woven  into  the  religious  life  of  the 
native. 

For  400  years,  since  their  discovery  by 
white  men — Mexicans  have  been  with¬ 
out  the  Bible  or  a  knowledge  of  the 
living  Christ. 

The  sales  of  Bibles  in  Mexico  increased 
over  four  times  during  the  last  few 
years. 

The  courage  of  missionaries  in  sticking 
to  their  posts  in  time  of  greatest  need 
and  danger  has  created  a  favorable 
disposition  toward  Protestant  Chris¬ 
tianity. 

Many  of  the  constitutionalist  generals 
and  other  leaders  are  either  Protest¬ 
ants  or  attend  Protestant  services. 


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WHAT  THE  METHODIST  EPISCO¬ 
PAL  CHURCH  HAS  IN  MEXICO 

1918 

Property — 

No.  Valuation 
Churches,  chapels,  parson¬ 
ages,  homes  . 103  $319,950 

Educational  institutions 

and  presses .  4 

Hospitals  and  dispensa¬ 
ries  .  1  198,200 


Total  property  .  $518,150 

Staff — 

21  Missionaries  and  foreign  workers 
143  Native  preachers  and  workers 
169  Teachers 


333  Total  staff 

Students  and  pupils  .  5,469 

Membership  .  8,043 

Sunday  School  scholars .  4,603 

Epworth  League  members . 2,992 

Unbaptized  adherents  . 11,320 


THE  CENTENARY  PROGRAM  IN 
MEXICO 

1918-1922 

Property — 

77  Churches  . 

17  Parsonages,  land,  addi¬ 
tions  .  . $412,850* 

66  Schools :  buildings,  land,  fur¬ 
niture,  equipment .  183,050 


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1  Hospital :  improvement,  plant, 

equipment .  $4,400 

An  adequate  medical  pro¬ 
gram  is  under  considera¬ 
tion  . 


Total  property  and  equip¬ 
ment  .  $600,300 

Endowment  .  200,000 


Staff  and  Maintenance — 

4  Missionaries  . 

78  Native  teachers  . 

102  Native  teachers . 

6  Native  nurses  and  others 
4  Missionaries,  doctors  and 
nurses,  and  other 
maintenance  expenses  . . 


$178,650 

165,200 

65,475 


Total  staff  .  $409,325 

Total  requirements  . $1,209,625 

From  local  receipts  ....  395,360 

From  home  base  .  814,265 


Includes  $250,000  for  new  church  and 
headquarters  in  Mexico,  of  which 
$200,000  is  expected  from  sale  of  old 
property. 


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SOUTH  AMERICA 

ASTOUNDING  STATEMENTS 

In  body,  South  America  is  a  rugged 
giant  with  great  riches  at  its  com¬ 
mand;  in  mind  and  soul,  South  Amer¬ 
ica  is  stunted  by  illiteracy  and  irre- 
ligion. 

South  America  may  be  termed  the  con¬ 
tinent  of  superlatives. 

It  contains  the  highest  peak  in  the  West¬ 
ern  Hemisphere;  the  loftiest  navigable 
lake  in  the  world;  and  the  earth’s 
greatest  river. 

South  America  is  three  times  as  large  as 
China  and  four  times  as  large  as  India. 

Brazil  alone  is  the  fourth  largest  coun¬ 
try  in  the  world.  It  is  larger  than  the 
whole  of  Europe. 

The  Argentine  Republic  could  hold  all 
of  the  United  States  east  of  the  Mis¬ 
sissippi,  plus  the  first  tier  of  States 
west  of  it. 

Chile  is  called  the  shoestring  republic. 

This  narrow  country  is  long  enough  to 
reach  from  New  York  to  San  Fran¬ 
cisco. 

Its  area  is  four  times  that  of  Nebraska. 

The  Amazon  river  system  has  over  50,- 
000  miles  of  navigable  waterway, 
enough  to  tie  two  loops  around  our 
planet. 

South  America  has  larger  unknown  areas 
than  any  continent,  not  excepting 
Africa. 


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Mr.  Roosevelt  found  an  entirely  un¬ 
known  river  system  in  Brazil,  when 
he  discovered  the  “River  of  Doubt.” 

Ignorance  of  South  America  in  the 
United  States  is  due  to  self-satisfied 
complacency. 

The  ABC  countries  of  South  America 
are  Argentina,  Brazil,  and  Chile. 

They  are  the  leading  republics  of  South 
America. 

Trade  with  South  America  has  increased 
and  expanded  in  many  directions  and 
a  new  knowledge  of  commercial  and 
agricultural  possibilities  has  quickened 
interest  greatly. 

The  Panama  Canal  has  brought  the  west 
coast  of  South  America  within  easy 
reach  of  the  United  States. 

It  is  a  day’s  journey  by  train  across 
some  of  the  million-acre  farms  in 
Brazil  and  Argentina  where  they  raise 
stock  and  grow  rice,  wheat,  corn,  al¬ 
falfa,  tobacco  and  coffee. 

Half  the  rubber  of  the  world  comes 
from  tropical  America. 

Brazil  produces  three-fourths  of  the 
world’s  coffee  supply. 

Enough  sugar  is  produced  in  one  prov¬ 
ince  of  Argentina  to  sweeten  this 
coffee. 

The  supposedly  barren  wastes  of  Peru 
yielded  in  one  year  1,700,000  tons  of 
sugar  cane.  1 

Our  famous  copper  mines  in  Michigan, 
Montana,  and  Arizona  are  surpassed  in 
richness  by  those  on  the  west  coast  of 
South  America. 


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More  tin  is  mined  in  Bolivia  than  any¬ 
where  else  in  the  world  except  in  the 
Malay  Peninsula. 

Chile’s  nitrates  fertilize  the  fields  of 
the  world  and  bring  her  an  annual 
revenue  in  export  duties  of  over  fif¬ 
teen  million  dollars. 

POPULATION 

Only  a  third  of  South  America’s  popula¬ 
tion  is  of  pure  white  blood.  This  is 
less  than  15  million. 

In  Peru  and  Ecuador,  only  one  person 
in  seventeen  is  white ;  nearly  three- 
quarters  are  Indian.  The  rest  are  Chi¬ 
nese  and  mixed. 

Mixed  races,  such  as  white  and  Indian 
or  white  and  Negro,  form  40  per  cent 
of  the  population  of  the  continent. 

There  are  several  million  Indians  and 
other  native  peoples  who  have  not  been 
reached  by  any  Church  whatever  and 
are  as  pagan  as  any  tribes  in  the  heart 
of  Africa. 

A  million  immigrants  a  year  were  pour¬ 
ing  into  South  America  before  the 
World  War. 

They  came  from  Italy,  Spain,  Germany, 
England,  Holland,  Scandinavia,  Por¬ 
tugal,  China,  Japan  and  India. 

There  are  over  six  million  Africans 
among  the  twenty-five  million  people 
in  Brazil,  and  many  of  them  the 
crudest  type  of  Negro  on  the  Ameri¬ 
can  Hemisphere. 

Chile’s  tillable  soil  is  held  by  seven  per 
cent  of  the  population. 


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MORAL  PROBLEMS 

Illegitimacy  robs  many  children  in  South 
America  of  normal  home  life. 

We  cannot  overlook  the  fact  that  coun¬ 
tries  where  20  to  60  per  cent  of  the 
people  are  of  illegitimate  birth,  are 
lands  of  desperate  moral  need. 

Alcoholism  is  rife  on  the  west  coast  of 
South  America.  In  Valparaiso,  Chile, 
there  is  one  saloon  for  every  24  men. 

LACK  OF  SANITATION 

There  is  a  crying  need  in  South  Amer¬ 
ica  for  education  along  the  line  of 
sanitation  and  public  hygiene. 

Open  sewers  run  through  the  streets  of 
many  cities  and  in  some  sections  small¬ 
pox  is  a  continuous  epidemic. 

In  Chile,  which  has  one  of  the  finest  cli¬ 
mates  in  the  world,  the  death-rate  is 
twice  that  of  the  United  States  or 
Western  Europe. 

Three-quarters  of  the  children  there  die 
before  reaching  two  years  of  age. 

EDUCATION  NEEDED 

Three  out  of  every  four  people  in  South 
America  can  neither  read  nor  write. 

Elementary  schools  are  the  least  devel¬ 
oped  part  of  the  educational  system  of 
South  America. 

In  Brazil  the  rate  of  illiteracy  is  71  per 
cent ;  in  Argentina,  50  per  cent ;  in 
Chile,  63  per  cent;  Columbia,  80  per 
cent.  The  rate  in  the  United  States 
is  7.7  per  cent. 


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Bolivia  recently  offered  a  Presbyterian 
minister  the  position  of  head  of  its 
educational  department,  with  full  pow¬ 
ers. 

Ecuador  called  in  a  Methodist  preacher 
to  help  in  its  normal  schools  and  Peru 
is  using  American  educators  in  the 
State  schools. 

Models  for  education  everywhere  are  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  missionary  col¬ 
leges,  such  as  Sao  Paulo,  the  Ameri¬ 
can  Institute  at  La  Paz,  and  the  Girls’ 
College  at  Santiago. 

Universities  and  higher  schools  are  for 
intellectuals  or  those  of  pure  white 
blood. 

The  universities  are  non-religious.  The 
students  and  nrofessors  are  agnostic 
or  openly  infidel. 

The  large  and  well-equipped  universities 
such  as  the  one  in  Buenos  Ayres  are 
under  State  control  and  a  strongly 
marked  leadership  of  highly  educated 
men. 

The  gigantic  population  which  is  certain 
in  South  America  will  be  materialistic, 
agnostic,  weak  in  moral  character  and 
spiritual  ideals  unless  the  Gospel  of 
Christ  can  be  built  into  the  life  of  the 
continent. 

Lord  Bryce  says :  “It  is  a  grave  misfor¬ 
tune  that  both  the  intellectual  life  and 
ethical  standards  of  conduct  seem  to 
be  entirely  divorced  from  religion.” 

-anxiO  -  oi  sammA  diuoS  tsanas  aHT 


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SPIRITUAL  DESTITUTION 

u,vt  10  i  TO 

Back  of  the  moral  needs  of  South  Amer¬ 
ica  is  a  condition  of  spiritual  destitu¬ 
tion. 

The  Bible  in  South  America  is  prac¬ 
tically  an  unknown  book. 

The  Gospel  of  a  living  Christ  is  an  un¬ 
known  story. 

Again  and  again  the  priests  have  burned 
Bibles  distributed  by  the  missionaries 
who  were  then  driven  out  of  the  vil¬ 
lages  where  they  were  at  work. 

South  America  has  been  “The  Neglected 
Continent”  in  Christian  Missions. 

The  total  number  of  ordained  foreign 
missionaries  in  South  America  in  1916 
was  320. 

There  was  one  ordained  clergyman  of 
evangelical  churches  for  every  156,250 
of  the  population. 

In  any  of  the  ten  republics  of  South 
America  a  missionary  could  have  a 
city  and  dozens  of  towns  for  his  par¬ 
ish. 

In  some  of  the  countries  he  could  have 
one  or  two  provinces  without  touch¬ 
ing  any  other  evangelical  worker. 

There  are  more  ordained  ministers  in 
the  State  of  Iowa  than  in  all  South 
America,  with  Mexico  -band  Central 
America  added. 

o  1  mD3a  iDubnoo  to  ab usbriBfa  Ispirte 

THE  APPEAL  TO  US 

The  appeal  of  South  America  to  Chris¬ 
tian  North  America  is  strongly  re¬ 
enforced  by  two  considerations. 


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First  is  the  responsibility  which  its  near¬ 
ness  and  unity  of  interests  with  North 
America  put  upon  us. 

Second  is  the  needs  of  its  democracy: 
the  necessity  of  a  vital  Protestant 
Christianity  if  the  democracies  are  to 
be  homes  of  freedom  and  justice. 

Europeans  who  came  first  to  South 
America  were  impelled  by  a  spirit  of 
adventure,  lust  for  gold,  and  the  de¬ 
sire  for  conquest. 

The  conquerors  of  South  America  were 
militarists  from  western  Europe  bent 
on  errands  of  destruction  and  loot. 

The  founders  of  New  England  sought 
freedom  to  worship  God  and  were 
driven  by  love  for  liberty. 

The  difference  of  purpose  and  ideals  and 
racial  stock  of  the  settlers  of  the  two 
continents  explains  much  of  the  diver¬ 
gence  between  the  history  of  the  two 
continents. 

The  Pan-American  Bureau,  with  head¬ 
quarters  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  is  a 
powerful  organization  under  the  active 
support  of  the  President  of  the  United 
States  and  the  Presidents  of  South 
American  republics,  to  promote  closer 
relationships. 

Two  conferences  of  great  importance 
were  held  in  191 5. 

One  was  a  gathering  of  financiers  from 
21  American  republics  held  under  the 
auspices  of  the  United  States  Govern¬ 
ment. 

The  second  was  a  Pan-American  Scien¬ 
tific  Congress,  bringing  a  different 
group  of  visitors  from  Latin  America. 


79 


The  Congress  on  Christian  Work  in 
Latin  America,  with  481  delegates 
from  all  Christian  countries,  met  in 
February,  1916,  at  Panama. 

The  reports  of  this  Congress  are  a  most 
exhaustive  study  of  social,  educational 
and  spiritual  conditions  of  Latin 
America  ever  made. 

WHAT  THE  METHODIST  EPISCO¬ 
PAL  CHURCH  HAS  IN  SOUTH 
AMERICA  AND  PANAMA 

1918 

Property — 

No.  Valuation 

Churches,  chapels,  par¬ 


sonages,  homes . 114  $1,372,422 

Educational  institutions 
and  presses .  16  313,518 

Hospitals  and  dispensa¬ 
ries 

Total  property .  $1,685,940 


Staff — 

137  Missionaries  and  foreign  workers 
239  Native  preachers  and  workers 
152  Teachers 


528  Total  staff 

Students  and  pupils .  2,608 

Membership  . 14,966 

Sunday  School  scholars.... . 12,424 

Epworth  Leagues  members .  1,459 

Unbaptized  adherents  .  5,910 


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THE  CENTENARY  PROGRAM  IN 
SOUTH  AMERICA  AND  PANAMA 
1918-1922 

Property — 

86  Churches  and  chapels. ... 

31  Parsonages  . 

4  Missionary  residences...  $1,472,725 

4  Seminary  and  Training 

schools  . . .  > . 

3  Colleges  . . 

14  High  schools  . 

29  Elementary  schools. ..... 

1  Agricultural  school. .....  2,041 ,405 

5  Hospitals  . 500,000 

Total  property  and  ' 

equipment  . . $4,014,130 

Endowment  . 1,173,520 

Staff  and  Maintenance— 

64  National  preachers . 

24  Missionary  preachers...  $578,180 

158  National  teachers. . . . 

126  Missionary  teachers.....  1,178,260 

4  National  deaconesses  and 

nurses  . 

9  Missionary  deaconesses 


and  nurses  .  30,440 


Total  staff  .  $1,786,880 

Total  requirements  .  $6,974,530 

From  local  receipts  ..  1,350,326 

From  home  base  .  5,624,204 

*  rr ; 


SOUTH  AMERICA  INVESTMENTS 


$10  will  furnish  needed  Hntern  slides 
on  the  life  of  Christ. 

$50  will  purchase  a  horse  for  an  itin¬ 
erant  preacher. 


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$75  will  send  a  national  preacher  to 
theological  school  for  a  year. 

$200  will  provide  equipment  for  a 
chapel. 

$350  will  pay  the  salary  of  a  national 
preacher  for  a  year. 

$80  will  build  a  chapel  in  unoccupied 
territory. 

$1,000  will  buy  land  for  a  church  or  a 
parsonage  in  a  city. 

$10  will  pay  the  tuition  of  an  Indian 
boy  for  a  year.  - 

$25  will  maintain  a'  child  in  primary 


school  for  a  year.  o 

$30  will  keep  a  student  in  advanced 
school  for  a  year,  -r  . 

$150  will  send  out  a  national  primary 
teacher.  \ 

$200  will  provide  the  equipment  for  a 
primary  school. 

$850  will  send  an  Indian  teacher  into 
unoccupied  territory. 

$900  will  buy  land  for  an  elementary 
school. 

$50  will  care  for  an  out-of-door  clinic 


patient  for  a  year. 

$150  will  maintain  a  free  hospital  bed 
for  a  year. 

$200  will  support  a  national  nurse  for 
a  year. 

$250  will  buy  a  share  in  a  hospital  of  a 
hundred  beds. 

$360  will  pay  the  salary  of  a  national 


trained  nurse  for  a  year. 

$750  will  pay  the  yearly  salary  of  a 


nurse  from  the  United  States. 


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PANAMA  fa,T 

-©gag  dtfi  ?3vii£ri  ina'gmsrjni  aiom  sril 

THE  WORLD’S  CROSSROADS 

2snirf5£3t  jiioroilfli  [(g  {jtb 

The  Panama  Canal  is  like  a  turnstile 

between  the  two  great  ocean  fields  of 
the  world:  the  Atlantic  and  the  Paci¬ 
fic. 

Through  this  gateway  steamers  from 
all  over  the  'yvorld,  and  people  of  all 
nations,  are  constantly  passing. 

Plere  are  two  growing  cities,  Panama 
and  Colon,  strategic  centers  on  what 
may  become  the  greatest  commercial 
highway  on  the  globe. 

A  determined  and  successful  fight  was 
made  against  disease. 

Yellow  fever  was  stamped  out  with  the 
elimination  of  the  mosquito. 

Extensive  sanitary  operations  involved 
cleaning  up  towns,  paving  and  drain¬ 
ing  streets,  and  installing  sewerage 

systems.  -rgrnmcTa. 

Settlements  were  built  which  are  the 
last  word  in  sanitary  engineering  and 
construction. 

It  remains  for  the  Churcfr  to  add  to 
this  physical  cleanliness  iporal  sanita¬ 
tion  and  spiritual  renewing. 

THE  RELIGIOUS  CHALLENGE 
The  American  missionary  has  attacked 
his  problem  with  the  same  energy  and 
enthusiasm  which  made  possible  the 

svrtcn  banimt  bins 

Here  is  presented,  one  of  the  most,  cos¬ 
mopolitan  problems  of  all  Methodism. 


83 


Church  and  State  have  been  thoroughly 
divorced. 

The  more  intelligent  natives  are  abso¬ 
lutely  unbiased,  and  open-minded  to¬ 
ward  all  religious  teachings. 

300,000  Indians  live  outside  the  Canal 
Zone,  most  of  them  in  stark  paganism 
with  no  Christian  effort  directed  to¬ 
ward  them. 

All  of  Panama,  outside  the  Canal  Zone, 
has  been  given  Methodism  as  its  de¬ 
nominational  responsibility. 

METHODISM’S  INVESTMENT 

10  Methodist  Episcopal  missionaries,  4 
foreign  workers,  and  9  native  helpers 
constitute  our  entire  force  for  the 
Panama  Mission. 

We  have  3  congregations,  an  English, 
a  Spanish,  and  a  West  Indian  meet¬ 
ing  in  Panama,  and  one  Spanish  so¬ 
ciety  in  Colon. 

Panama  College  afforded  primary  and 
grammar  school  instruction,  in  1918, 
to  80  boys,  and  100  girls. 

Guachapali  School  at  Panama  has  45 
boys  and  65  girls  from  the  homes  of 
poor  West  India  Negroes  of  the  ten¬ 
ement  district  of  Guachapali  City. 

THE  FUTURE  PROGRAM 

The  Centenary  plans  to  reopen  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  at  Colon, 
now  closed  for  lack  of  workers. 

Our  working  force  must  be  increased  ’ 
and  trained  native  workers  must  be 
provided,  in  order  to  put  our  present 
work  upon  a  more  substantial  basis, 


84 


and  to  take  advantage  of  the  remark¬ 
able  opportunities  among  the  masses 
of  the  people. 

The  Centenary  will  enable  us  to  enter 
the  untouched  territory  outside  the 
Canal  Zone  by  establishing  stations  at 
central  points  from  which  to  work 
out  through  the  country. 

Buildings  will  be  provided  for  both  of 
our  schools  which  are  now  obliged  to 
meet  in  the  churches. 

The  work  of  Panama  College  will  be 
enlarged  so  that  it  will  become  a 
college  in  fact  as  well  as  in  name. 

For  necessary  church  and  parsonage 
buildings,  and  to  erect  schools,  as  well 
as  to  equip  and  adequately  man  our 
work,  the  Centenary  will  invest  $5,- 
624,204  in  Panama. 

WHAT  THE  METHODIST  EPISCO¬ 
PAL  CHURCH  HAS  IN  PANAMA 
(See  page  80.) 

THE  CENTENARY  PROGRAM  IN 
PANAMA 
(See  page  81.) 


85 


tinrHioqq 


THE  PHILIPPINE 
ISLANDS 

{i.tnrjo')  :)fii  rfiguoirfr  }no 

OUR  OWN  POSSESSIONS 

The  Philippine  Islands  stand  before  the 
world  as  America’s  experiment  in  de¬ 
mocracy  in  the  Orient. 

The  United  States  paid  Spain,  in  1909, 
$20,000,000  for  this  group  of  3,000 
islands,  whose  area  equals  approxi¬ 
mately  that  of  the  New  England 
States,  plus  New  York  and  Delaware. 

Several  hundred  of  them  are  very  small 
and  uninhabited — most  of  the  land 
area  is  made  up  by  eight  of  the  larger 
islands  of  the  group — Luzon,  Min¬ 
danao,  Panay,  Cebu,  Samar,  Mindoro, 
Negros  and  Leyte. 

Luzon  is  larger  than  Pennsylvania ; 
Mindanao,  than  Indiana ;  Samar  is 
nearly  as  large  as  New  Jersey. 

The  islands  are  sparsely  populated. 
About  nine  million  people  live  where 
fifty  millions  could  live. 

Manila  has  been  called  “the  hub  around 
which  the  wheel  of  Asia  turns.” 

There  are  900,000,000  spectators  in  that 
Eastern  world. 

The  Philippines  have  a  fertile  soil  and 
a  bountiful  rainfall. 

Vegetation  grows  there  the  whole  year 
around — compare  this  with  land  in 


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the  temperate  zone,  where  the  grow¬ 
ing  period  is  only  five  months. 

There  has  been  definite  advance  in  the 
raising  and  exporting  of  copra,  the 
■  dried  meat  of  the  coconut. 

From  1899  to  1915  the  amount  exported 
showed  a  ninefold  increase,  with  an 
appreciable  rise  ip  value. 

Now  the  islands  are  among  the  leaders 
in  copra  production. 

The  material  prosperity  of  the  Philip¬ 
pines  has  been  improved  by  agricul¬ 
tural  methods;  good  roads  and  rail¬ 
roads. 

There  is  a  future  for  the  Philippines  in 
their  hardwood  forests  if  they  are 
conserved  and  developed. 

Progress  along  the  line  of  sanitation  has 
been  marked.  .  v 

In  1905  there  was  not  a  sewer  east  of 
the  Suez ;  no  provision  for  the  dis¬ 
posal  of  human  waste  even  in  Manila. 

Smallpox,  once  considered  an  inevitable 
children’s  ailment,  has  been  practically 
eradicated. 

The  death-rate  among  small  children, 
however,  is  still  about  fifty  per  cent. 

18  years  ago  95  per  cent  of  the  people 
were  illiterate. 

To-day  55  per  cent  are  illiterate. 

3,000,000  children  have  been  touched  by 
the  public  school  system. 

American  schools  teach  the  dignity  of 
labor  by  industrial  training  and  im¬ 
prove  the  health  of  the  nation  by  ath¬ 
letic  sports. 

About  80  per  cent  of  the  pupils  now  par¬ 
ticipate  in  some  form  of  athletics. 


87 


Ten  thousand  Filipino  teachers  now  as¬ 
sist  the  450  American  teachers. 

They  teach  in  English,  which  in  twenty 
years  has  become  better  known  in  the 
polyglot  Philippines  than  Spanish  in 
four  hundred  years. 

An  American  administration  in  the 
Philippines  has  been  a  salient  of  dem¬ 
ocratic  influence  flung  into  the  midst 
of  Asia. 

The  Philippine  offering  of  soldiers  to 
the  United  States  in  the  world  war 
was  25,000  well-drilled  men. 

Subscriptions  to  three  Liberty  Loans  in 
the  Philippines  amounted  to  $8,675,000 
and  the  sale  of  treasury  certificates 
reached  $10,000,000. 

Evangelization  in  the  Philippines  is 
steadily  going  on,  in  spite  of  heavy 
obstacles. 

There  are  69  sorts  of  people  in  the 
islands,  speaking  34  languages  and 
about  a  dozen  dialects. 

Even  the  Philippines  are  not  free  from 
the  sign  of  the  Crescent. 

There  are  half  a  million  Mohammedans, 
who  live  chiefly  on  the  island  of  Min¬ 
danao  and  in  the  Sulu  group. 

Gambling  and  cock-fighting  are  com¬ 
mon. 

The  superstition  resulting  from  the 
Spanish  friar’s  opposition  to  the 
progress  of  scientific  knowledge  has 
not  yet  be^n  eradicated. 

During  Passion  Week  all  over  the 
islands  men  still  practice  flagellation 
and  gash  themselves  horribly  to  gain 
the  blessings  of  the  Church. 


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THE  CHURCH  AT  WORK 

Protestant  denominations  have  cooper¬ 
ated  in  the  Philippines  so  that  evan¬ 
gelical  rather  than  denominational 
work  is  stressed. 

Methodists  are  responsible  for  2,500,000, 
a  large  part  of  Luzon,  the  most  dense¬ 
ly  populated  island. 

WHAT  THE  METHODIST 
EPISCOPAL  CHURCH  HAS 
IN  THE  PHILIPPINES 
1918 

Property — 

No.  Valuation 
Churches,  chapels,  parson¬ 
ages,  homes  . 266  $176,528 

Educational  institutions 

and  presses  .  2  68,750 

Hospitals  and  dispensaries 


Total  property  .  $245,278 

Staff — 

25  Missionaries  and  foreign  workers  • 
•  1,351  Native  preachers  and  workers 


60  Teachers 
1,436  Total  staff 

Students  and  pupils  .  2,762 

Membership  . 47,725 

Sunday  School  scholars  . 23,967 

Epworth  League  members .  6,101 

Unbaptized  adherents  . 13,941 


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THE  CENTENARY  PROGRAM  IN 
THE  PHILIPPINES 

1918-1922 

Property — 

128  Churches  and  chapels.... 

5  Missionary  residences... 


Land  for  above .  $218,610 

1  Christian  University _ . 

7  Dormitories  —  High 
School  Students  . 

1  Theological  School  . 

2  Industrial  Schools .  355,500 

2  Hospitals  .  25,000 


Total  property  and 
equipment  .  $599,110 

Staff  and  Maintenance — 

69  Native  preachers  . 

9  Missionaries  .  $167,950 

7  Native  teachers .  5,700 

3  Doctors  .  27,000 


Total  staff  .  $200,650 

Total  requirements .  $799,760 

From  local  receipts....  132,370 
From  home  base .  667,390 


INVESTMENTS  IN  PHILIPPINES 


$25  will  support  a  vacation  evangelist 
during  the  summer. 

$30  will  buy  a  bicycle  for  an  itinerant 
preacher. 

$50  will  furnish  a  scholarship  in  a  Theo¬ 
logical  Seminary. 

$180  will  pay  the  salary  of  a  native 
preacher  for  a  year. 

$250  will  aid  the  natives  in  building  a 
chapel. 

$500  with  the  assistance  of  the  natives, 
will  build  a*  church. 

$5,000  will  build  a  mission  house. 

$10  will  take  a  patient  to  a  government 
hospital. 

$25  will  pay  the  expenses  of  a  Bible 
Institute. 

$50  will  keep  a  high  school  boy  in  a 
Christian  hostel  for  a  year. 

$1,000  will  aid  in  building  a  Christian 
hostel  for  high  school  pupils. 

$2,000  will  buy  land  for  an  industrial 
school. 

$2,500  will  aid  in  the  opening  of  a  hos¬ 
pital. 

$1  will  aid  in  the  distribution  of  tracts. 

$5  will  help  the  circulating  library  for 
native  preachers. 

$8  will  supply  a  Sunday  School  with 
literature  for  a  year. 

$100  will  buy  books  for  a  shelf  in  the 
Theological  School  library. 

$500  will  print  new  editions  of  dialect 
hymnals. 

$1,000  will  aid  in  the  purchase  of  new 
property  for  the  publishing  house. 


91 


A  BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF 
METHODIST  EPIS¬ 
COPAL  FOREIGN 
MISSIONS 

THE  CHRISTIAN  CRUSADE  FOR 
WORLD  DEMOCRACY.  By  S.  Earl 
Taylor  and  Halford  E.  Luccock. 
In  terse,  picturesque  style  the  reader 
is  carried  to  the  Far  East,  to  Africa, 
Latin  America  and  parts  of  Europe, 
and  shown  the  lack  of  many  of  the 
fundamental  necessities  of  democracy. 
The  Crusade  of  Christian  missions  is 
portrayed  as  necessary  to  the  winning 
of  the  war  if  democracy  is  to  be  safe 
for  the  world.  8vo.  Illustrated  with 
maps,  charts  and  halftones.  Cloth. 
Net,  75  cents.  Paper,  net,  50  cents; 
postpaid 

The  Methodist  Book  Concern. 

THE  CENTENARY  SURVEY  OF 
THE  BOARD  OF  FOREIGN  MIS¬ 
SIONS  OF  THE  METHODIST 
EPISCOPAL  CHURCH. 

Board  covers.  Illustrated  with  charts 
and  maps.  Bound  with  the  Centenary 
Survey  of  the  Board  of  Home  Mis¬ 
sions  and  Church  Extension  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church.  $1.00, 
postpaid.  Joint  Centenary  Committee 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
111  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 


92 


THE  PERSPECTIVE  OF  WORLD 
WORK 

Three  handy  little  volumes  that  fit  the 
pocket.  Illustrated.  Price  1 5  cents  ; 
$1.50  per  dozen;  $10.00  per  hundred, 
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MISSIONS  AND  WORLD  DEMOC¬ 
RACY.  By  George  Heber  Jones. 
Democracy  is  the  largest  word  in  the 
dictionary  to-day.  This  course  shows 
the  relation  of  missions  to  the  democ¬ 
racy  we  are  fighting  for. 

THE  NEW  MAP  OF  THE  WORLD. 
By  Halford  E.  Luccock.  It  considers 
the  new  world  map  which  is  being 
made  by  the  war  and  the  new  fron¬ 
tiers  which  the  Kingdom  of  God  now 
faces. 

FOREIGN  MISSIONARIES  IN  AC¬ 
TION.  By  L.  O.  Hartman.  A  pic¬ 
turesque  trip  around  the  world,  pre¬ 
senting  the  vivid  impressions  of  an 
eyewitness. 

The  Methodist  Book  Concern. 

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is  in  large  type  and  consists  of  brief, 
readable  paragraphs.  The  following 
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now  available : 


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KOREA.  Illustrates  the  transition 
from  a  civilization  of  antiquity  to 
the  most  sweeping  growth  of 
Christianity  in  Asia. 

INDIA.  Shows  the  process  of  de¬ 
veloping  a  nation’s  soul. 

SOUTH  AMERICA.  Tells  of  the 
immediate  to-morrow  of  our  own 
continent. 

AFRICA.  Preserves  a  vivid  record 
of  the  fast  vanishing  shadow  of 
Paganism  in  the  Dark  Continent. 

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that  has  everything  but  Christ. 

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2.  China. 

3.  Philippine  Islands. 

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Part  II 


METHODIST  EPIS¬ 
COPAL  HOME 
MISSIONS 

The  following  pages  aim  to  present  in  a 
concise,  usable  form  the  salient  facts 
concerning  the  people  and  fields  min¬ 
istered  to  by  Methodist  Episcopal 
Home  Missions,  the  relations  of  the 
Church  to  this  task  as  planned  for 
and  administered  by  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  and  Church  Exten¬ 
sion  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  and  the  Centenary  program 
for  the  new  day  of  Home  Missions. 

More  elaborate  discussion  of  the  work 
of  the  Board  of  Home  Missions  and 
Church  Extension  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  will  be  found  in 
the  additional  literature  listed  in  a 
Bibliography  of  Methodist  Episcopal 
Home  Missions  on  page  179. 


97 


THE  CHURCH’S 
AMERICAN  FRONTIER 

POSSESSING  THE  LAND 

The  frontier  is  not  yet  a  thing  of  the 
past. 

As  defined  by  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  the  frontier  consists  chiefly 
of  twelve  States:  Arizona,  California, 
Colorado,  Idaho,  Montana,  Nevada, 
New  Mexico,  Oregon,  North  Dakota, 
Utah,  Washington  and  Wyoming. 

These  States,  with  an  area  of  1,259.977 
square  miles,  have  a  population  of 
only  6,458,417,  approximately  five  peo¬ 
ple  to  a  square  mile. 

Settlers  in  frontier  States  are  rapidly 
increasing  in  numbers  at  the  present 
time. 

Over  40,000  homesteads  were  granted, 
and  103,917  entries  made  in  the  year 
1917. 

Irrigation  is  turning  millions  of  acres  of 
dry  land  into  rich  agricultural  regions. 

$70,000,000  has  been  spent  in  the  last 
decade  by  the  Government  in  irriga¬ 
tion  projects. 

This  has  opened  1,910,000  acres  for  cul¬ 
tivation. 

Over  15,000,000  acres  additional  have 
been  reclaimed  by  private  and  indus¬ 
trial  projects. 


98 


Dry-farming  communities  are  multiply¬ 
ing  rapidly.  They  all  have  the  ear¬ 
marks  of  prosperity  from  the  begin¬ 
ning.  In  five  years  they  are  marked 
by  thrifty  business  enterprises. 

A  LAND  OF  CHANGES 

The  common  characteristics  of  frontier 
communities  are  newness,  movement, 
and  uncertainty. 

These  first  settlers  must  be  followed  by 
the  church  and  religious  teaching. 

Hundreds  of  frontier  towns  and  villages 
have  no  Protestant  churches. 

Dance  halls  are  frequently  used  as  places 
of  worship.  So  many  roads,  fences 
and  buildings  essential  to  daily  liv¬ 
ing  must  be  constructed  all  at  once 
that  these  pioneers  often  have  no 
means,  even  when  they  have  the  in¬ 
clination,  to  build  churches. 

In  Montana  alone  there  are  69  organ¬ 
ized  congregations  of  Methodists  with¬ 
out  places  of  worship  or  pastors. 

The  uncertainty  of  many  frontier  com¬ 
munities  is  one  of  the  church’s  handi¬ 
caps. 

The  foreign  character  of  many  mining 
communities  hinders  the  growth  of 
Christian  democracy. 

WHERE  MINERS  DELVE 

The  mining  sections  are  real  frontier 
problems. 

The  spirit  of  restlessness  prevails  among 
the  miners. 

Little  children  here  have  less  opportun¬ 
ity  even  than  in  the  crowded  city. 


99 


Home  conditions  are  continually  upset 
by  the  triple  shift. 

The  old-time  miners  were  American, 
English,  Irish  and  Welsh. 

They  were  individualistic  in  thought  and 
action. 

The  high-grade  ores  are  now  mined  by 
Austrians,  Japanese,  Italians,  Greeks, 
Slavs  and  Finns. 

The  newcomers  are  easily  influenced  by 
leaders  speaking  their  native  tongue. 

In  Rock  Springs,  Wyoming,  26  lan¬ 
guages  are  spoken. 

The  spiritual  commonwealth  has  a  mis¬ 
sion  right  here. 

The  draft  registration  of  Tonopah,  Ne¬ 
vada,  showed  representatives  of  35 
countries. 

Here  is  an  adventure  for  Christian 
democracy. 

Churches  equipped  for  community  ser¬ 
vices  are  essential. 

It  takes  a  preacher  made  of  “real  stuff” 
to  perform  such  ministry  as  a  mining 
camp  demands. 

Family  life  has  to  be  strengthened. 

Social,  moral  and  religious  ideals  have  to 
be  put  in  terms  of  everyday  living. 

Methodism  has  here  one  more  insistent 
challenge. 

HEWERS  OF  WOOD 

350,000  men  are  engaged  in  lumbering 
in  the  West. 

The  work  in  lumber  camp  and  sawmill 
town  is  seasonal. 

Most  of  the  lumbermen  are  without 
home  or  family  ties. 


100 


They  are  cut  off  from  the  restraints  and 
conventionalities  of  civilization. 

Not  a  few  think  themselves  without 
standing  in  society. 

The  I.  W.  W.  finds  a  fruitful  field  under 
such  conditions. 

The  “Sky-Pilot”  must  bear  a  virile  mes¬ 
sage  to  these  dwellers  in  bunk-houses. 

One  denomination  has  ten  missionaries 
at  this  task. 

What  are  ten  missionaries  for  350,000 
lumbermen  ? 

Shall  we  say  that  the  obligation  is  being 
met  and  pass  it  by? 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has 
done  little  special  work  for  these  men. 

The  Centenary  plans  to  remedy  Method¬ 
ism’s  lack  in  this  respect. 

ACROSS  THE  PLAINS 

The  picturesque  cowboy  and  sheepherd- 
er  are  vanishing. 

Yet  40,000,000  acres  are  still  available 
for  stockraising. 

It  is  difficult  to  establish  and  maintain 
churches  in  stockraising  countries. 

Few  cowboys,  or  sheepherders  marry. 

Where  there  are  no  families  there  is  no 
settled  community. 

Where  there  is  no  community  a  normal 
church  is  impossible. 

The  traveling  missionary  has  a  great 
opportunity  here. 

These  sections  tend  to  pass  over  into 
agriculture. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  plans 
to  reinforce  this  phase  of  its  ministry. 

The  Centenary  must  provide  the  funds. 


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A  FRONTIER  CHALLENGE 

The  problems  of  the  frontier  demand 
leaders  of  the  highest  caliber. 

Yet  in  the  State  of  Nevada,  for  instance, 
the  average  salary  for  a  Methodist 
minister  is  $750  a  year. 

In  frontier  territory  the  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Church,  has  2,108  churches,  with 
262,488  members. 

In  North  Dakota,  Wyoming,  Nevada, 
Utah,  New  Mexico,  and  Arizona  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  membership's  less 
than  two  per  cent  of  the  population. 

In  California,  Oregon,  Washington, 
Idaho,  Colorado,  and  Montana  it  is 
between  two  and  four  per  cent. 

THE  CENTENARY  PLANS 

To  build  more  and  better  churches. 

To  increase  pastors’  salaries  so  that  the 
best  men  can  be  put  into  the  field. 

To  establish  social  centers  in  the  mining 
and  lumbering  districts. 

To  assist  in  teaching  the  English  lan¬ 
guage. 

To  provide  and  support  795  missionaries, 
regular  pastors,  language  pastors,  dea¬ 
conesses,  and*T>ther  workers  to  carry 
out  the  contemplated  enterprises. 

To  build  874  new  churches,  parsonages, 
and  other  buildings. 

The  Centenary  is  raising  $1,989,885  for 
these  frontier  needs. 

The  Empires  of  the  West  promise  to  be¬ 
come  a  part  of  the  Kingdom  of  God 
on  Earth. 

And  Methodism  will  do  its  share  by  in¬ 
creasing  non-competitive  ministries. 


102 


THE  MORMON 
MENACE 

A  MENACE  TO  DEMOCRACY 

The  Mormon  Church  has  450,000  mem¬ 
bers. 

Utah,  its  stronghold,  boasts  of  293,000 
Mormons. 

Idaho  has  78,000;  Arizona  and  Wyoming 
15,000  each. 

No  other  individual  State  has  more  than 
5,000. 

10,000  a  year  is  the  average  increase  of 
Mormon  adherents  in  America. 

After  Mormonism  reached  Utah  its 
chief  converts  were  obtained  among 
the  immigrants  from  Great  Britain 
and  Scandinavia. 

1,400  Mormon  missionaries,  paying  their 
own  expense,  or  having  them  paid  by 
relatives  for  two  years’  service,  are 
zealously  working  in  this  country. 

Converts  are  won  by  the  concealment  of 
the  polygamous  aspects  of  the  Mor¬ 
mon  Church  and  by  the  promise  of 
free  land. 

The  practice  of  tithing  has  enabled  the 
Mormon  Church  to  amass  great 
wealth. 

Concentration  of  its  followers  in  a  few 
States  has  helped  Mormonism  to  gain 
much  political  influence. 

The  Mormon  Church  has  a  Woman’s 
Relief  Society  with  50,000  members. 

Its  Young  Men’s  Mutual  Improvement 
Society  numbers  36,916.  Its  Young 


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Ladies'  Mutual  Improvement  Society 
has  36,000  members. 

A  Primary  Association  numbers  70,000. 
Its  Sunday  School  Union  has  198,587 
teachers  and  pupils  enrolled. 

Mormon  Temples  have  been  erected  in 
Canada  and  Hawaii. 

Mormon  missionaries  have  won  many 
converts  in  Europe. 

In  1890  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  upheld  the  Edmunds- 
Tucker  act  making  polygamy  unlaw- 
ful. 

In  May,  1911,  the  English  people  pro¬ 
tested  to  the  Home  Secretary,  Church¬ 
ill,  against  allowing  the  Mormon 
propaganda  to  be  preached  in  Great 
Britain. 

Mormonism  emphasizes  early  marriage 
and  is  demoralizing  to  adolescent 
youth. 

THE  LEAVEN  OF  CHRISTIANITY 

Only  two  per  cent  of  the  people  in  Utah 
belong  to  any  Protestant  evangelical 
denomination. 

There  are  two  self-supporting  Method¬ 
ist  Episcopal  churches  in  Utah,  and 
eleven  self  -  supporting  evangelical 
churches  of  other  denominations. 

Utah  has  less  than  10,000  Protestants, 
about  10,000  Roman  Catholics,  and 
8,000  Greek  Catholics. 

Over  100,000  people  in  the  State  are  not 
members  of  any  Church. 

Despite  their  small  number,  the  evan¬ 
gelical  churches  forced  Utah  to  adopt 
a  public  school  system,  although  the 


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Mormons  did  not  favor  popular  edu¬ 
cation. 

By  their  example  the  evangelical 
churches  forced  the  Mormon  Church 
into  an  attitude  of  patriotism. 

Utah  is  the  only  State  in  which  Method¬ 
ism  does  direct  work  with  the  Mor¬ 
mons. 

There  are  twenty  Methodist  Episcopal 
charges  in  Utah  with  1,712  members. 

WHAT  METHODISM  PROPOSES 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  pro¬ 
poses  to  build  new  churches  and 
strengthen  old  ones  so  that  education, 
patriotism,  and  Christianity  will  be 
more  surely  fostered. 

The  Centenary  plans  call  for  a  $100,000 
church  and  student  center  near  the 
University  of  Utah  in  Salt  Lake  City. 

A  strong  evangelical  program  will  be 
carried  out  to  hold  those  already  affili¬ 
ated  with  the  church,  to  influence  the 
Mormons  to  give  the  Bible  fairer 
treatment  and  to  attract  both  the  dis¬ 
satisfied  Mormons  and  those  with  no 
religion. 

A  special  effort  will  be  made  to  reach 
young  people  in  the  colleges. 

Assistance  is  needed  in  pastoral  support. 

The  personality  of  the  pastor  is  most 
important  in  this  “foreign  missionary 
field  at  home.” 

The  Centenary  is  raising  $209,500  for 
work  in  Mormon  territory 


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THE  AMERICAN 
INDIAN 

Indian  missions  were  the  earliest  Meth¬ 
odist  missions. 

The  Church  has  not  followed  up  this 
work  in  a  Christian  statesmanlike 
way. 

There  are  now  350,000  Indians  scattered 
over  the  United  States. 

There  are  70,000  Indian  children  under 
ten  years  of  age. 

Only  one-third  of  these  Indians  speak 
English,  and  only  one-fourth  are  citi¬ 
zens. 

The  Indian,  who  had  his  lands  taken 
from  him,  has  been  treated  at  best  as 
a  national  ward,  not  as  a  potential 
citizen. 

Many  Indians,  in  the  recent  war,  fought 
for  those  very  principles  of  self- 
determination  for  other  races  that 
have  been  denied  them. 

In  folk  lore,  music,  household  art,  and 
poetic  interpretation  of  nature,  the  red 
man  has  treasures  that  would  greatly 
enrich  the  white  man. 

Ignorance  of  sanitation  and  personal  hy¬ 
giene  claims  large  numbers  of  victims 
every  year.  Increasing  attention  to 
these  matters  seems  to  have  turned 
the  former  annual  decrease  in  popu¬ 
lation  into  a  slight  increase. 

Less  than  forty  per  cent  of  the  Indians 
are  Christians,  while  130,000  are  not 
identified  with  any  church. 


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Return  to  the  reservations  often  results 
in  the  reversion  of  the  educated  In¬ 
dian  youth  to  the  pagan  ways  of  his 
forefathers. 

This  makes  difficult  the  process  of 
Christianizing  and  Americanizing. 

Women  and  children  have  been  al¬ 
most  untouched  by  religious  influ¬ 
ences.  Trained  Indian  women  work¬ 
ers  are  needed  to  live  among  them. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  is  now 
doing  Christian  work  among  19  dif¬ 
ferent  tribes  of  Indians  in  9  different 
States. 

Most  of  the  work  is  done  by  white  pas¬ 
tors  of  regular  charges,  who  are  able 
to  hold  services  solely  for  Indians  on 
Sunday  afternoons. 

There  are  very  few  Indian  Sunday 
Schools. 

THE  CENTENARY  PROPOSES 

The  Centenary  program  calls  for  $128,- 
450  for  Indian  work. 

This  will  include  the  appointment  of 
resident  Indian-speaking  missionaries. 

Native  Indian  preachers  will  be  trained. 

Sunday  Schools  will  be  established. 

Indian  women  workers  will  be  appointed 
to  bring  Christianity  to  the  women 
and  children  on  the  reservations. 

The  Gospel  will  be  preached  in  terms 
that  meet  the  Indians’  needs. 

The  heritage  of  the  wigwam  will  be  sup¬ 
planted  by  the  Christian  home. 


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OUR  LATIN¬ 
AMERIC  AN  S 

OUR  FOREIGN  SOUTHWEST 

Latin-Americans  inhabit  a  part  of 
Methodism’s  frontier  field. 

Our  great  Southwest  is  populated  by 
nearly  1,500,000  of  them. 

Alien  Mexicans  swarmed  across  the  bor¬ 
der  by  thousands  in  the  last  few  years. 

The  Spanish-Americans  are  employed  as 
unskilled  laborers  in  the  beet  and  cot¬ 
ton  fields,  as  sheepnerders,  in  the 
mines,  and  on  the  railroads. 

The  Portuguese,  also  Spanish-speaking 
peoples,  have  settled  in  considerable 
numbers  in  the  great  valley  and  ranch 
regions.  Many  of  them  are  dairymen. 

The  Latin-American,  scantily  educated 
in  democratic  ideals,  is  often  antag¬ 
onistic  to  our  national  aims. 

Many  Mexicans  are  lured  across  the  bor¬ 
der  by  false  representations  of  those 
in  need  of  laborers. 

Lodged  in  the  worst  quarters  of  the 
cities,  they  have  little  home  life,  are 
badly  lodged  and  are  the  victims  of 
tuberculosis. 

Meeting  racial  prejudice  and  contempt, 
and  ignorant  of  our  laws  and  lan¬ 
guage,  they  are  often  unfairly  treated 
in  the  courts  by  means  of  conscience¬ 
less  interpreters. 

They  are  for  the  most  part  contentedly 
illiterate  and  wretchedly  poor. 

Their  religious  views,  where  they  are 
not  blindly  atheistic,  are  all  tinctured 


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with  the  Roman  Catholicism  of  cen¬ 
turies  ago. 

METHODIST  EPISCOPAL 
EFFORTS 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  now 
has  work  among  the  Latin-Americans 
in  northern  and  southern  California. 
Colorado,  New  Mexico,  Arizona  and 
Texas. 

The  present  equipment  consists  of  41 
churches  and  chapels. 

These  buildings  are  too  frequently  mere 
halls,  or  shacks.  They  are  located  in 
disreputable  and  inconvenient  quar¬ 
ters,  a  discredit  and  handicap  to  the 
cause  of  Christianity. 

23  pastors  care  for  a  membership  of 
1,440. 

75  Sunday  Schools  have  2,650  pupils. 

To  train  the  thousands  of  potential  citi¬ 
zens,  Methodism  has  provided  for 
Spanish-American  boys  two  schools, 
with  a  combined  faculty  of  ten. 

One  of  these  schools  is  the  Spanish- 
American  Institute  at  Gardena,  Cali¬ 
fornia,  with  60  pupils  and  a  faculty 
of  6. 

The  other  school  is  Albuquerque  College, 
at  Albuquerque,  New  Mexico,  with  a 
faculty  of  4  and  an  attendance  of  35. 

An  extensive  service  is  being  carried  on 
for  Latin-American  people  at  Plaza 
Community  Center,  Los  Angeles,  Cal¬ 
ifornia,  modeled  after  the  Morgan 
Memorial  Church,  Boston,  with  an 
educational,  social  and  evangelical 
ministry. 


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But  with  these  educational  and  evan¬ 
gelical  ministries  enumerated,  it  re¬ 
mains  a  sad  fact  that  Protestant 
Christianity  has  reached  less  than  five 
per  cent  of  these  people. 

THE  CENTENARY  PROPOSES 

The  evangelization  of  the  Latin-Ameri- 
cans  by  large-visioned  pastors  and  di¬ 
rectors  of  religious  education  of  their 
own  nationality. 

Replacing  the  wretched  chapels  with  at¬ 
tractive  buildings  and  adequate  equip¬ 
ment. 

Strengthening  the  School  for  Spanish- 
American  boys  at  Albuquerque,  New 
Mexico. 

Providing  a  definite  plant  for  Plaza 
Community  Center  in  Los  Angeles, 
which  will  provide  work-rooms,  gym¬ 
nasium  and  other  facilities  for  com¬ 
munity  work. 

Classes  for  teaching  English  and  Ameri¬ 
can  ideals,  and  other  activities  for  the 
Americanization  of  the  Latin-speaking 
peoples. 

Providing  complete  courses  of  practical 
industrial  work,  such  as  is  given  for 
colored  students  at  Hampton  Institute. 


110 


ALASKA 


A  NORTHERN  EMPIRE 

Alaska  is  a  land  of  586,400  square  miles 
of  almost  inexhaustible  riches,  with  a 
population  largely  transient. 

Since  the  year  of  its  purchase  by  the 
United  States,  in  1867,  Alaska’s  min¬ 
eral  production  alone  has  amounted 
to  nearly  forty  times  its  cost. 

There  are  many  rich  fisheries,  and  be¬ 
cause  of  the  short,  hot  summers,  won¬ 
derful  crops  of  vegetables,  potatoes, 
alfalfa  and  grains  can  be  grown. 

Since  1910,  the  number  of  people  in 
Alaska  has  steadily  decreased,  largely 
because  of  failure  to  find  more  rich 
gold  placer  mines. 

The  population  is  made  up  of  natives 
(Indians,  Eskimos  and  half-breeds), 
and  white  men  in  search  of  wealth. 

Might  still  rules  in  the  place  of  law  in 
many  mining  camps,  and  gambling  is 
a  part  of  everyday  life. 

The  passage  of  prohibition  for  Alaska, 
January  1,  1918,  has  lessened  the  drink 
problem. 

Men  of  the  most  degraded  type  come  in 
droves  to  the  fisheries  during  the  sea¬ 
son  making  temporary  alliances  with 
half-breed  Indian  women. 

Many  of  the  cnildren  of  these  unprom¬ 
ising  alliances  are  naturally  bright  and 
would  be  very  impressionable  to  re¬ 
ligious  and  educational  influences. 


ill 


The  disregard  of  the  native  population 
for  sanitary  laws  makes  many  of  them 
victims  of  tuberculosis. 

61.5  per  cent  of  Alaska’s  school  children 
are  tubercular. 

Railroad  camps  in  Alaska  are  almost  en¬ 
tirely  churchless. 

Hundreds  of  square  miles  of  territory 
are  without  a  chapel  or  meeting-house. 

Difficulties  of  travel  and  transportation 
over  this  vast  field,  by  trails  which 
winter  renders  almost  impassable, 
make  missionary  work  a  hazardous 
undertaking. 

The  missionary  to  Alaska  is  cut  off 
from  all  reinforcements. 

He  is  continually  following  people  who 
are  forever  on  the  trail. 

He  must  be  a  real  frontiersman,  ready 
of  wit  to  deal  with  widely  different 
types, — from  the  Indian  to  the  adven¬ 
turing  college  graduate. 

METHODISM  IN  ALASKA 

The  work  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  now  centers  at  Nome,  Juneau, 
Seward,  Fairbanks  and  Ketchikan, 
with  a  circuit  branching  out  from  each 
of  these  points. 

The  total  Methodist  Episcopal  member¬ 
ship  in  Alaska  is  only  98. 

The  Centenary  is  asking  for  $76,500  for 
Alaska,  in  order  to  employ  more  pas¬ 
tors  and  to  appoint  a  general  mission¬ 
ary  to  cover  the  entire  field. 


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HAWAII 


OUR  HAWAIIAN  OPPORTUNITY 
AN  EXPERIMENT  STATION 

Hawaii,  a  group  of  islands  annexed  by 
the  United  States  in  1898,  forms  the 
outpost  of  our  western  civilization  and 
our  frontier  Pacific  Coast  defense. 

The  problem  is  largely  rural,  the  wealth 
of  Hawaii  being  found  in  sugar,  pine¬ 
apple  and  rice  plantations. 

Hawaii  is  America’s  greatest  experiment 
station  in  mingling  nationalities. 

The  original  native  Hawaiians  have  been 
almost  replaced  by  Japanese,  Chinese, 
Koreans,  Filipinos,  Portuguese  and 
Americans. 

During  1917  the  birth-rate  increased  so 
that  the  Japanese  population  in 
Hawaii  equalled  the  entire  Japanese 
population  of  the  United  States. 

In  these  islands  the  philosophy  of  life 
and  government  developed  will  react 
both  upon  the  nations  of  the  Far  East 
and  the  United  States. 

The  Japanese,  who  number  four  to  one 
against  any  other  nationality  in  the, 
islands,  have  brought  with  them  a 
corrupted  form  of  Buddhism. 

The  Buddhists  have  recently  erected  a 
$100,000  temple  in  Honolulu. 

They  also  maintain  35  schools,  to  which 
14,000  American-born  Japanese  chil¬ 
dren  come  daily. 


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THE  CHURCH  IN  HAWAII 

Bv  a  comity  arrangement,  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  does  no  Chinese 
work,  while  the  Congregational  Church 
does  no  work  with  Koreans. 

The  city  of  Honolulu  is  a  joint  responsi¬ 
bility  for  Japanese  and  Filipinos. 

All  the  rest  of  the  territory  is  districted 
and  assigned  to  the  denominations. 

Methodist  Episcopal  work  is  established 
in  four  of  the  islands,  Oahu,  Kauai, 
Maui  and  Hawaii. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  now 
has  22  churches  and  chapels ;  8  par¬ 
sonages  ;  4  American  local  preachers ; 
one  Japanese,  one  Filipino  and  12 
Koreans;  1,711  full  members,  267  pro¬ 
bationers;  a  Japanese  Sunday  School 
of  53  scholars ;  595  day  scholars. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  is  try¬ 
ing  to  teach  these  people  of  many  na¬ 
tionalities  to  live  together  as  Christian 
American  citizens. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  co¬ 
operates  with  other  denominations  in 
educational  work  in  the  Mid-Pacific 
Institute  at  Honolulu. 

The  Centenary  asking  of  $641,425  will 
make  possible  in  Hawaii  the  extension 
of  the  Sunday  school,  to  keep  pace 
with  the  growing  Oriental  birth-rate; 
the  training  of  pastors  of  their  own 
nationality ;  and  the  replacing  of  poor 
chapels  with  churches  adequate  in  size 
and  equipment. 


114 


PORTO  RICO 

The  island  of  Porto  Rico  has  an  area 
of  3.606  square  miles.  Its  population 
numbers  1,198,970. 

It  was  acquired  from  Spain  by  the 
United  States  in  1898. 

It  is  a  fertile,  promising  land,  but  still 
hung  about  with  chains  of  ignorance, 
superstition,  tyranny  and  greed. 

The  Porto  Rican  people  are  an  inter¬ 
mixture  of  Spanish,  Indian,  Negro 
and  white  blood. 

60  per  cent  of  the  people  are  illiterate. 

88  per  cent  live  in  rural  communities, 
often  under  conditions  of  abject  pov¬ 
erty. 

The  newer  generations,  while  taught 
English  in  the  public  schools,  almost 
invariably  speak  Spanish  outside. 

The  Porto  Ricans  have  had  no  ground¬ 
ing  in  democracy. 

Coming  suddenly  into  citizenship,  they 
need  more  thorough  Americanizing. 

In  business,  education,  and  sanitation. 
American  ideas  have  begun  to  stamp 
themselves  on  native  life. 

Field  under  the  sway  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church  for  400  years,  the 
island  was  practically  isolated  from 
Protestant  influences  until  1898. 

About  50,000  of  the  people  are  now 
Protestants. 

The  majority  are  accustomed  to  look 
upon  the  Church  as  something  which 
touches  them  at  birth,  marriage  and 
death,  but  which  bears  no  vital  rela¬ 
tion  to  their  everyday  life. 


115 


Concubinage  is  a  great  evil  on  the 
island,  because  of  the  great  cost  for 
marriage  ceremonies  imposed  upon  the 
poor  by  the  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

The  government  has  trained  hundreds 
of  native  Porto  Ricans  as  teachers 
in  the  public  schools. 

The  policy  of  the  government  is  to  ap¬ 
point  native  Porto  Ricans  to  office. 

METHODISM  IN  PORTO  RICO 

Methodist  Episcopal  work  began  in  Por¬ 
to  Rico  in  1900. 

The  Methodist  roll  call  records  3,070 
full  members ;  2,343  probationers ;  99 
Sunday  Schools  with  a  total  enroll¬ 
ment  of  6,500;  3  missionaries;  22  sal¬ 
aried  local  preachers;  36  volunteers 
who  serve  without  salary ;  an  Ep- 
worth  League  with  546  Senior  and 
496  Junior  members;  47  churches  and 
chapels;  15  parsonages. 


CENTENARY  PLANS 

The  Centenary  plans  to  establish  more 
churches  and  chapels  in  rural  sec¬ 
tions  ;  appoint  more  native  workers ; 
give  native  leaders  better  training ;  lay 
special  emphasis  upon  citizenship 
training  in  both  schools  and  churches 
and  cooperate  with  other  denomina¬ 
tions  in  non-sectarian  educational 
work. 

$213,880  is  needed  to  put  this  program 
into  effect. 


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ORIENTALS  IN 
AMERICA 

The  government  has  said  that  the  Ori¬ 
ental  is  not  welcome. 

There  are  about  80,000  Chinese  and  100,- 
000  Japanese  in  the  United  States. 

There  are  a  few  Chinese  colonies  in 
Eastern  cities.  The  greater  number 
of  Chinese  have  remained  on  the 
Pacific  Coast. 

The  Japanese  are  confined  almost  en¬ 
tirely  to  California  and  other  Western 
States. 

Among  all  Orientals  there  is  a  tendency 
to  live  in  exclusive  colonies. 

The  Oriental  question  has  two  phases, 
the  so-called  immigrant  problem,  and 
the  necessity  of  fair  treatment  of 
those  already  here, 

METHODISM’S  STATUS 

The  Pacific  Methodist  Episcopal  Japan¬ 
ese  Mission  has  16  church  buildings. 

It  has  23  pastors  and  1,240  full  church 
members  and  16  Epworth  League 
Chapters  with  600  members. 

Buddhist  temples  have  been  erected  in 
every  large  city  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 

The  Nishi  Hon  Gwan  Ji,  an  organiza¬ 
tion  of  Buddhism,  has  established  mis¬ 
sions  in  California  practically  in  every 
city  and  town  where  Methodism  is 
represented. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Anglo-Japan- 
ese  school  at  San  Francisco  has  an  at¬ 
tendance  of  162  pupils. 


117 


The  Methodist  Episcopal  Pacific  Chi¬ 
nese  Mission  has  6  churches  and  9 
Sunday  Schools,  a  Chinese  Epworth 
League  with  183  members,  8  English 
night  schools  and  4  day  schools. 

In  California  the  principal  Methodist 
Episcopal  work  among  the  Chinese 
is  in  San  Francisco,  where  the  mother 
church  is  situated. 

Strong  men,  as  well  as  good  workers, 
have  been  developed  there,  many  of 
whom  returned  to  their  native  land 
as  missionaries. 

A  considerable  number  of  Christian 
churches  in  China  can  trace  their  ori¬ 
gin  to  missionary  work  here. 


THE  CENTENARY  PROGRAM 

The  Centenary  program  calls  for  $1 90,- 
960,  to  be  expended  in  the  extension 
of  work  among  Orientals  in  America. 

In  establishing  supplementary  day 
schools,  with  special  training  in  Eng¬ 
lish  for  the  children. 

In  increasing  dormitory  accommoda¬ 
tions  for  single  men. 

In  sending  out  itinerant  missionaries, 
especially  to  the  ranches. 

In  increasing  and  making  more  efficient 
the  Sunday  Schools  in  order  to  keep 
pace  with  the  rapidly  increasing  num¬ 
ber  of  children. 

In  establishing  a  Christian  “language” 
press  to  offset  the  Buddhistically  in¬ 
clined  daily  “language”  publications 
printed  on  the  Pacific  Coast. 


118 


THE  AMERICAN 
NEGRO 

The  American  Negro  has  increased  in 
fifty  years  from  4,000,000  slaves  to 
12,000,000  freemen. 

Fifty  years  ago  the  Negro  was  ignorant, 
penniless,  himself  a  chattel. 

By  1875  the  race  had  become  owners  of 
over  3,000,000  acres  of  land. 

In  1910  this  had  increased  to  nearly  20,- 
000,000  acres,  a  State  as  large  as  Ire¬ 
land. 

The  Negro  also  owns  500,000  homes 
and  64  banks. 

He  publishes  398  newspapers  and  peri¬ 
odicals. 

The  Negro  has  31,393  churches  and  $26,- 
000,000  in  church  property. 

The  Negro  plants  and  gathers  the 
.South’s  most  important  crops. 

He  is  also  a  factor  in  Northern  shops 
and  mills. 

From  Boston  Common  to  Chateau 
Thierry  the  Negro  has  cheerfully  of¬ 
fered  his  life  for  his  country. 

There  were  3,000  Negroes  in  the  Revo¬ 
lutionary  army  and  400,000  in  our 
army  to-day. 

IN  THE  SOUTHLAND 

In  the  South,  the  Negro  children  con¬ 
stitute  one-third  of  the  school  popu¬ 
lation. 

They  receive  one-sixth  of  its  school 
money,  short  terms,  inferior  teaching 
and  inadequate  supervision  of  the 
schools. 


119 


The  Negroes  pay  a  larger  part  of  the 
costs  of  education  than  any  other 
group  of  people  in  America. 

In  Louisiana  the  length  of  the  school 
term  for  colored  children  is  two 
months  less  than  that  of  the  white 
children. 

Of  every  $5  spent  for  public  education 
in  the  State  of  Georgia,  the  white 
school  gets  $4  and  the  Negro’s  $1. 

Eight  Southern  States  have  practically 
disfranchised  the  Negro. 

Since  1890,  five  and  a  half  millions,  over 
half  of  whom  can  read  and  write,  and 
who  own  fully  $150,000,000  of  prop¬ 
erty,  have  been  deprived  of  all  voice 
in  their  own  government. 

There  have  been  3,200  lynchings  of  Ne¬ 
groes  during  the  past  thirty-five  years. 

The  Negro  is  restricted  in  his  choice  of 
fields  of  labor. 

NORTH  OF  DIXIE 

750,000  Negroes  have  come  North  since 

1916. 

The  largest  cities  affected  by  the  exodus 
are  St.  Louis,  Chicago,  Indianapolis, 
Cincinnati,  Philadelphia  and  Detroit. 

This  migration  is  the  most  noteworthy 
event  that  has  happened  to  the  Negro 
race  since  emancipation. 

The  Negro  came  North  to  seek  political 
equality,  unrestricted  education,  and 
free  choice  of  occupation. 

In  the  North  he  finds  civic  privileges, 
but  often  industrial  disfranchisement. 

He  is  paid  lower  wages  than  the  white 
man,  and  is  always  asked  a  higher 
rent. 


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In  Northern  cities,  the  Negro  finds  scant 
accommodations  in  houses  or  in 
churches. 

He  is  packed  into  intolerably  crowded 
districts  averaging  often  4  persons 
per  room. 

In  Harlem,  New  York  City,  there  are 
1,500  Negroes  to  the  block. 

No  other  race  problem  approaches  that 
of  the  Negro.  In  it  lie  all  the  issues 
of  /democracy. 

THE  NEGRO’S  ACHIEVEMENTS 

* 

There  are  few  pursuits  in  which  the 
Negro  is  not  found. 

22,440  are  in  the  employment  of  the 
United  States  government. 

1,000  patents  have  been  issued  to  Negro 
inventors. 

There  are  now  4,000  Negro  physicians 
in  America. 

There  are  1,000  trained  Negro  nurses 
and  2,000  Negro  lawyers. 

There  are  500  Negro  authors  and  in¬ 
ventors. 

The  Negro  has  many  organizations  for 
assisting  in  self-improvement  of  his 
people. 

These  include  the  National  Negro  Busi¬ 
ness  Men’s  League  and  National  Bank¬ 
ers’  Association,  the  National  Bar  As¬ 
sociation,  the  National  Medical  Asso¬ 
ciation,  the  National  Negro  Press,  and 
the  National  Music  and  Arts  Club. 

For  education  the  National  Association 
of  Teachers  in  Colored  Schools  stands 
as  a  beacon  light. 


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The  National  Urban  League,  whose  pur¬ 
pose  is  to  establish  forums  and  relief 
organizations  and  to  promote  social 
welfare,  has  branches  in  25  cities. 

The  National  Association  for  the  Ad¬ 
vancement  of  Colored  People,  assist¬ 
ed  by  the  Peabody  Fund,  investigates 
lynchings  and  collects  data  of  all  sorts. 

There  are  no  anarchists  among  the  Ne¬ 
groes. 

Statistically  the  Negro  is  the  most  re¬ 
ligious  of  Americans. 

The  church  is  the  center  of  his  life,  the 
best  expression  of  his  race,  and  insti¬ 
tutionally  his  most  worthy  achieve¬ 
ment. 

Over  80  per  cent  of  the  Negro’s  wealth 
is  in  church  property. 

One  of  the  fundamental  needs  of  the 
Negro  is  full  vocational  training  in  all 
industries. 

This  should  be  supplied  by  the  federal 
government. 

THE  CHURCH  AND  THE  NEGRO 

The  Negroes  are  preeminently  a  social 
people,  needing  group  contacts  for 
their  best  development. 

It  will  take  social  workers,  and  many 
of  them,  to  supply  this  need. 

The  Church  should  direct  the  growing 
forces  of  human  service,  its  ministry 
must  help  to  furnish  conditions  in  the 
community  most  favorable  to  spiritual 
life. 


The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has 
Negro  Institutional  Churches  in  Kan¬ 
sas  City,  Misouri ;  Chicago,  Illinois  ; 
Jacksonville,  Florida;  Philadelphia 
and  Cincinnati,  all  doing  good  work. 

Many  more  community  churches  are 
needed. 

There  is  also  in  the  Brookhaven  Dis¬ 
trict,  of  the  Mississippi  Conference,  of 
'the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  a 
great  constructive  community  project, 
having  a  demonstration  farm  and 
traveling  governmental  instructors 
connected  with  it. 

It  has  agricultural,  canning  and  poultry 
clubs  numbering  among  its  members 
555  boys  and  263  girls. 

It  is  an  educational  and  community  cen¬ 
ter  for  14,000  Negroes. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has 
2,172  Negro  ministers  and  3,538  local 
preachers. 

It  has  348,477  Negro  church  members 
and  probationers. 

It  has  3,688  churches  and  1,345  parson¬ 
ages. 

It  has  3,642  Sunday  Schools  and  234,647 
Sunday  School  teachers,  officers  and 
pupils. 

The  Freedmen’s  Aid  Society  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  pioneered 
Christian  education  among  the  Ne¬ 
groes. 

Since  1866  it  has  invested  over  $10,000,- 
000  in  this  work. 

It  has  under  its  direction  21  schools, 
with  317  teachers  and  5,279  students. 


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The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
through  its  Board  of  Home  Missions 
and  Church  Extension,  appropriates 
about  $60,000  annually  to  the  support 
of  Negro  pastors  and  the  erection  of 
Negro  churches. 

METHODISM’S  OPPORTUNITY 

The  Centenary  proposes  in  the  South 
the  development  of  a  trained  ministry 
and  the  adaptation  of  church  build¬ 
ings  to  community  service ;  the  mak¬ 
ing  of  model  parsonages  and  gardens 
as  demonstration  of  successful  home 
life. 

In  the  North  it  proposes  the  building 
of  new  churches  to  fit  needs  that  have 
far  outgrown  the  present  supply  and 
the  supporting  in  these  pulpits  of  men 
able  to  guide  the  newcomers  in  read¬ 
justing  their  lives  to  new  conditions. 

It  plans  the  furnishing  of  community 
centers  for  recreation,  organizing  do¬ 
mestic  science  training  and  coopera¬ 
tion  with  other  agencies  in  providing 
better  housing  conditions  of  all  sorts. 
For  this  purpose  $3,972,275  is  being 
raised. 


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RURAL  METHODISM 

IN  GENERAI. 

53.7  per  cent  of  the  population  of  the 
United  States  is  rural. 

Approximately  87  per  cent  of  all  Meth¬ 
odist  Episcopal  Churches  are  rural. 

Even  omitting  the  Negro  churches,  more 
than  57  per  cent  of  all  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Churches  are  in  communities  of 
less  than  2,500  inhabitants. 

There  are  in  the  United  States,  10,518 
white  Methodist  Episcopal  ministers 
in  rural  charges. 

Of  these 

13  per  cent  receive  less  than  $400  per 
year. 

42  per  cent  receive  less  than  $800  per 
year. 

78  per  cent  receive  less  than  $1,200  per 
year. 

District  Missionary  Societies  have  been 
organized  in  six  Methodist  Episcopal 
Annual  Conferences. 

These  aim  to  give  organized  assistance 
to  local  missionary  enterprises. 

Rural  Ministers’  Associations  have  been 
forfned  in  eleven  Annual  Conferences. 

They  help  to  lift  the  rural  program  to 
the  highest  standards  of  efficiency. 

Educational  literature  has,  been  pre¬ 
pared  for  the  rural  ministry. 

The  Department  of  Rural  Work  of  the 
Board  of  Home  Missions  and  Church 
Extension  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 


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Church  has  assisted  in  establishing 
training  centers  for  rural  leadership. 

In  17  Annual  Conference  Districts,  aid 
has  been  given  in  developing  efficient 
rural  parishes  which  are  carrying  on 
well-organized  community  service 
work,  touching  every  phase  of  the  life 
of  the  people. 

In  general,  the  rural  field  may  be  di¬ 
vided  into  the  three  classifications : 

(1)  The  better  agricultural  sections. 

(2)  The  more  sparsely  settled  ag¬ 

ricultural  sections. 

(3)  The  rural  industrial  communi¬ 

ties. 

I.  THE  BETTER  AGRICULTURAL 
SECTIONS 

The  better  agricultural  sections  include 
the  corn  belt,  extending  through  Ne¬ 
braska,  Iowa,  Central  and  Northern 
Illinois,  Indiana,  and  Ohio ;  the  wheat- 
producing  sections,  including  Kansas, 
the  Dakotas,  Minnesota,  and  parts  of 
other  States ;  the  irrigated  sections, 
representing  about  75,000,000  acres  of 
possible  development ;  and  the  drain* 
age  areas,  representing  about  20,000,- 
000  acres. 

More  than  half  the  farms  in  many  of 
the  better  agricultural  sections  are 
occupied  not  by  owners  but  by  ten¬ 
ants. 

The  transient  tenant  is  generally  poor, 
and  takes  no  part  in  Church  work. 

The  absentee  landlord  often  discourages 
community  improvement. 


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Frequent  overlapping  of  denominational 
effort  in  rural  communities  destroys 
the  dignity  of  church  work  and  weak¬ 
ens  its  appeal. 

Many  rural  churches,  if  assisted  in  se¬ 
curing  adequate  pastoral  leadership, 
would  win  the  confidence,  respect,  and 
financial  support  of  the  communities. 

Where  tenants  are  indifferent  to  com¬ 
munity  problems,  the  rural  church 
must  help  create  a  new  community 
spirit. 

Community  leadership  is  being  supplied 
in  many  instances  by  the  State,  the 
Grange,  and  other  agencies. 

Public  schools  have  been  often  made  the 
social  and  recreational  centers  of  ru¬ 
ral  community  life. 

Increased  opportunity  for  leadership  in 
rural  communities,  in  connection  with 
farm  bureaus  and  government  agen¬ 
cies  is  now  diverting  life  service 
which  formerly  was  turned  toward 
the  rural  ministry. 

Immigrant  rural  communities,  largely 
augmented  i»  recent  years,  constitute 
many  entirely  neglected  fields. 

THE  CENTENARY  PROPOSES 

To  respond  to  the  needs  of  rural  com¬ 
munities  by 

Supplying  missionary  aid  where  it  is 
needed. 

Establishing  effective  training  schools 
for  rural  leadership. 

Continuing  the  community  service  work 
already  organized  by  the  Department 


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of  Rural  Work  of  the  Board  of  Home 
Missions  and  Church  Extension  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

Broadening  the  scope  of  this  work  by 
the  erection  of  new  church  buildings, 
or  properly  equipping  old  ones,  and 
by  conducting  a  campaign  for  increas¬ 
ing  the  efficiency  of  the  rural  ministry. 

Selecting  certain  charges  as  experi¬ 
mental  stations,  or  demonstration 
points,  where  definite  programs  of 
community  service  work  will  be  put 
in  operation. 

In  carrying  out  this  larger  program  in 
better  agricultural  sections,  $1 ,889,050 
will  be  spent  in  erecting  new  buildings, 
or  remodeling  old  ones,  and  $1,245,275 
in  proper  maintenance  and  adequate 
staff. 

2.  THE  SPARSELY  SETTLED  AGRI¬ 
CULTURAL  SECTIONS 

The  less  favored  agricultural  sections 
include  the  broad  expanse  of  hill  land 
extending  from  the  central  part  of 
Oklahoma  in  a  northeasterly  direction 
through  Arkansas,  southern  Missouri, 
Kentucky,  Tennessee,  southern  Illi¬ 
nois,  Indiana,  Ohio,  West  Virginia, 
Virginia  and  parts  of  Pennsylvania. 

In  it  are  comprised  also  the  sandy  soils 
of  the  southeastern  part  of  the  United 
States;  the  northern  pine  belt  ex¬ 
tending  from  Minnesota  through  Wis¬ 
consin,  Michigan,  parts  of  New  York, 
and  the  New  England  States. 

There  are  evidences  of  unrest  in 
the  farming  country. 


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Poverty  of  soil  and  loneliness  of  the 
land  is  driving  the  people  away. 

The  unsatisfied  hunger  for  human  in¬ 
tercourse  has  sent  many  country  wo¬ 
men  to  insane  asylums. 

If  the  farmer’s  lot  is  hard  in  the  poorer 
sections  of  the  country,  that  of  Ifis 
wife  is  still  harder. 

Tenants  are  becoming  more  numerous 
than  landlords  in  rural  communities. 

The  evils  of  absentee  landlordism  with 
its  indifference  to  local  community  in¬ 
terests  are  great. 

Foreigners  are  taking  the  place  of  na¬ 
tive  American  farmers  in  New  Eng¬ 
land  and  the  West. 

The  human  being  cannot  be  considered 
apart  from  his  food,  his  home,  his 
work,  his  wages. 

The  agricultural  college  has  a  sympa¬ 
thetic  appreciation  of  general  rural 
needs. 

The  government  also  will  give  assist¬ 
ance  through  its  experiment  stations 
and  the' Department  of  Agriculture. 

A  bad  road  is  a  tax  upon  every  ton  of 
produce  hauled  into  market. 

The  social  effects  of  good  roads  are  as 
great  as  their  industrial  benefits. 

Individualism  is  the  problem  of  rural 
life. 

RURAL  RECKONINGS 

The  rural  pastor  must  be  the  welder 
and  unifier  of  the  conditions  in  his 
community. 

The  rural  minister  should  advocate 
more  cooperation  among  farmers. 


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He  should  strive  for  the  introduction 
of  labor-saving  devices  both  for  the 
farm  and  for  the  farm  household. 

In  Ohio  there  are  4,000  churches  hav¬ 
ing  a  membership  of  less  than  100 
people. 

Many  small  communities  are  unable  to 
maintain  a  resident  pastor,  or  even  to 
erect  suitable  church  buildings. 

The  circuit  system  saps  a  pastor’s  ener¬ 
gies  and  incapacitates  him  for  his 
best  work. 

The  average  number  of  preaching  points 
covered  by  each  pastor  in  some  rural- 
districts  ranges  from  two  to  four  each 
Sunday. 

The  Kingdom  of  God  cannot  be  well 
attained  by  a  yearly  revival  and  half¬ 
time  preachers. 

THE  CENTENARY  PROPOSES 

To  supply  missionary  aid  where  it  is 
needed. 

To  aid  in  constructive  rural  programs. 

To  furnish  directors  of  religious  edu¬ 
cation. 

To  erect  new  church  buildings  of  a 
community  type  and  to  aid  in  prop¬ 
erly  equipping  old  ones. 

The  Centenary  is  raising  $965,730  for 
use  in  the  sparsely  settled  rural  fields. 


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3.  RURAL  INDUSTRIAL  COMMUNI¬ 
TIES 

WHERE  THEY  ARE 

Rural  industrial  communities  include 
coal,  coke,  iron  and  other  mining 
camps. 

They  also  include  fishing  villages,  and 
the  oil  fields  of  the  southwest. 

The  small  mill  and  factory  towns  of 
the  South  and  New  England,  and  the 
Northern  and  Western  lumber  camps 
are  likewise  rural. 

The  rural  industrial  community  usually 
has  an  immigrant  population  unfa¬ 
miliar  with  American  ideals  and  cus¬ 
toms. 

There  are  over  1 ,000,000  miners  in  the 
United  States,  half  of  whom  are  of 
foreign  birth. 

They  represent  a  population  of  about 
3,000,000  people. 

The  lumber  industry  claims  330,000  men 
who  cannot  be  reached  except  by  an 
itinerant  preacher. 

The  most  baffling  feature  of  the  rural 
industrial  community  is  its  transitory 
character. 

A  mining  camp  is  frequently  abandoned 
after  five,  ten,  or  fifteen  years. 

Its  existence  is  rarely  permanent,  and 
its  population  is  constantly  shifting. 

Poverty  and  lack  of  leisure  hamper  the 
growth  of  the  spirit  and  prevent  the 
support  of  religious  institutions. 

Many  of  the  rural  industrial  commu¬ 
nities  are  corporation-owned. 


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Schools,  houses,  stores  are  all  a  part 
of  the  plant. 

If  there  is  a  church,  it  is  company 
owned  too. 

In  the  coke  district  of  western  Penn¬ 
sylvania  there  are  104  towns,  compris¬ 
ing  a  population  of  70,000,  which,  at 
a  recent  date,  had  no  church  build¬ 
ing  within  their  limits. 

THE  CENTENARY  PROPOSES 

152  trained  workers  for  rural  industrial 
communities. 

57  deaconesses  and  women  assistants 
are  included. 

76  new  churches  and  15  parsonages  are 
to  be  built. 

The  diversity  of  the  field  makes  a  uni¬ 
form  plan  impossible.  Ingenuity  and 
ready  adaptability  will  mark  the  Cen¬ 
tenary  program. 

Co-operation  and  federation  with  other 
churches  will  be  fostered. 

The  government’s  plans  for  Americani¬ 
zation  will  be  promoted. 

Improvement  of  social  and  economic 
conditions  is  an  essential  feature  of 
the  larger  plans. 

The  Centenary  is  raising  $1,013,590  for 
rural  industrial  communities. 


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SOUTHERN 

HIGHLANDERS 

AMONG  THE  HILLS' 

Hidden  away  in  the  depth  of  thickly 
forested  hills,  on  the  mountain  slopes 
of  the  southern  portion  of  the  Appa¬ 
lachian  system,  are  people  known  as 
the  Southern  Mountaineers. 

These  Highlanders  are  descendants,  for 
the  most  part,  of  the  original  Scotch, 
Irish,  and  English  colonists. 

There  are  three  classes  of  Appalachian 
Highlanders:  (1)  the  nominal  High¬ 
landers,  (2)  the  normal  Highlanders, 
and  (3)  the  needy  Highlanders.  It 
is  among  the  last  group  that  mis¬ 
sionary  effort  must  be  increased. 

In  language,  dress,  and  general  culture, 
they  are  a  century  and  a  half  be¬ 
hind  the  times. 

The  main  features  of  the  problem  pre¬ 
sented  by  these  folk  are  due  to  pov¬ 
erty,  isolation,  and  illiteracy. 

The  Mountaineers  live  in  remote  dwell¬ 
ings  or  in  scattered  communities  and 
upon  often  impassable  roads. 

Their  homes  are  almost  bare  of  furni¬ 
ture. 

In  their  work  they  depend  upon  the 
most  primitive  farm  implements. 

The  mountain  women  weave  and  dye  the 
cloth  for  all  their  garments. 

The  mountain  men  are  blacksmiths,  mill¬ 
ers,  huntsmen,  and  farmers. 


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It  is  difficult  to  break  up  the  illicit 
stills  which  exist  everywhere. 

The  Mountaineers  are  naturally  friendly 
and  hospitable,  but  make  impassive 
and  relentless  enemies,  if  antagonized. 

It  is  an  old  saying  that  if  a  Mountaineer 
likes  you  he  will  die  for  you,  and 
if  he  dislikes  you,  you  will  probably 
die  for  him. 

The  Mountaineers  perpetuate  feuds  for 
generations. 

Whole  families  remain  at  war  long  af¬ 
ter  the  original  cause  of  their  dis¬ 
putes  has  been  forgotten. 

In  one-roomed  mountain  cabins  six  to 
ten  people  often  live,  cook,  eat,  and 
sleep,  in  utter  ignorance  of  the  simp¬ 
lest  principles  of  personal  hygiene. 

General  living  conditions  among  the 
Mountaineers  cause  the  widespread 
prevalence  of  such  diseases  as  ma¬ 
laria,  hookworm,  and  tuberculosis. 

The  problem  of  education  in  the 
Southern  Highlands  is  one  of  the  most 
important  of  the  hour. 

The  cost  for  prisons  and  courthouses 
in  one  of  these  States  is  about  17 
per  cent  more  than  for  school  build¬ 
ings.  In  almost  all  the  mountain  dis¬ 
tricts  the  illiterate  voter  holds  the 
balance  of  power. 

Thousands  of  young  men  of  the  same 
stock  as  Lincoln,  Polk  and  Farragut 
will  never  have  the  chance  to  learn 
to  read  and  write. 


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RELIGION  IN  THE  MOUNTAINS 

In  religion  the  Mountaineers  incline 
toward  certain  forms  of  Calvinism. 

They  do  not  favor  an  educated  or  train¬ 
ed  ministry,  and  faith  is  often  little 
more  than  superstition. 

This  Southern  Highland  territory  is 
touched  by  six  Methodist  Episcopal 
Annual  Conferences. 

Almost  all  the  Church’s  preaching  ap¬ 
pointments  are  “circuits.” 

The  preachers  are  seldom  well  trained. 

The  college  man  is  a  rarity. 

A  seminary  graduate  is  practically  un¬ 
known  among  the  mountain  preach¬ 
ers. 

Most  of  the  Southern  mountain  churches 
are  of  the  old  one-room  type. 

They  are  often  served  by  volunteer 
preachers. 

Large  portions  of  the  country  are  with¬ 
out  religious  services  of  any  kind. 

THE  CENTENARY  PLAN 

The  Southern  Highlanders  have  not 
been  overlooked  in  the  Centenary. 
$497,200  is  to  be  raised  for  them. 

More  and  better  schools  will  be  fur¬ 
nished;  the  number  of  trained  native 
workers  will  be  increased. 

Improved  Sunday  School  methods  will 
be  introduced. 

Modern  buildings  adapted  to  commun¬ 
ity  service  will  be  provided. 

A  program  which  will  place  the  church 
at  the  center  of  community  life  will 
be  launched. 


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THE  ITALIAN  IN 
AMERICA 

There  are  4,000,000  Italians  in  this  coun¬ 
try,  including  the  native-born  children 
of  foreign  parentage. 

Every  State  in  the  Union  has  Italian 
residents. 

New  York  City  is  the  largest  Italian 
city  in  the  world. 

Other  big  centers  for  the  Italians  are 
Philadelphia,  Boston,  Chicago,  New 
Haven,  Providence,  San  Francisco, 
and  Bridgeport,  Connecticut. 

75  per  cent  of  the  Italians  who  come 
to  America  were  farmers  in  Italy. 

Only  25  per  cent  fmd  agricultural  labor 
here;  the  others  are  absorbed  by  our 
big  industries. 

From  one  third  to  one  fourth  of  the 
Italian  immigrants  are  Roman  Catho¬ 
lics. 

The  total  number  of  Italian  Protestants 
in  the  United  States  is  20,000. 

The  Italians  have  the  lowest  per  cent 
of  insanity  of  any  race  admitted  to 
this  country. 

AMERICAN  ITALIAN 
METHODISM 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has 
50  churches  and  missions  with  52 
Italian  pastors  and  one  Swiss  pastor. 

2  American  pastors  are  engaged  in 
Italian  work,  9  American  deaconesses, 
one  Italian  deaconess,  3  American  and 
2  Italian  paid  lay  workers. 


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The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has 
3,402  Italian  members  and  1,839  pro¬ 
bationers. 

“La  Fiaccola,”  the  “Torch,”  is  the  Ital¬ 
ian  Christian  Advocate  of  the  Meth¬ 
odist  Episcopal  Church. 

The  Board  of  Home  Missions  and 
Church  Extension  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  appropriates  $50,- 
000  annually  for  work  among  Italians 
in  the  United  States. 

THE  CENTENARY  PROPOSES 

The  strengthening  of  centers  where  suc¬ 
cessful  work  is  being  done. 

Erecting  churches  which  will  satisfy  the 
Italians’  need  of  color  and  beauty. 

Providing  language  pastors  for  ex¬ 
clusively  Italian  churches  and  also  for 
English-speaking  churches  doing  Ital¬ 
ian  work. 

Bi-lingual  women  workers  to  visit  the 
homes  and  to  conduct  classes  for 
the  children  in  English  and  for  the 
mothers  in  Italian. 

Supporting  directors  of  religious  edu¬ 
cation  who  will  supervise  the  relig¬ 
ious  instruction  of  all  ages  and  the 
social  welfare  work. 

Strong  evangelistic  campaigns. 

Classes  in  American  citizenship. 

Wholesale  recreation  and  social  life. 

Choirs,  orchestras,  and  choral  clubs. 

For  this  varied  ministry  the  Centenary 
is  raising  $1,598,100. 


IMMIGRANTS  FROM 
EASTERN  EUROPE 


THE  SLAVS 

The  total  Slav  population  of  the  United 
States  is  estimated  at  4,000,000. 

The  principal  Slavic  groups  in  this  coun¬ 
try  are  Polish,  Slovak,  Croatian,  Ru- 
thenian,  Bohemian,  Moravian,  Bul¬ 
garian,  Serbian,  Montenegrin,  Russian, 
Dalmatian,  and  Bosnian. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  works 
principally  among  the  Bohemians, 
Poles  and  Russians. 

The  Slav  immigrants  prior  to  1880  con¬ 
sisted  largely  of  artisans  and  peasants, 
who  settled  on  farms  west  of  Chicago. 

After  1880  the  immigrants  were  urged 
to  come  to  America  by  the  various 
steamship  companies  and  by  the  call 
for  laborers. 

The  Slav  seeks  the  work  that  pays  him 
best,  regardless  of  long  hours,  hard 
physical  labor  or  danger. 

The  Slavs  live  for  the  most  part  in 
over-crowded  tenements,  and  support 
a  large  number  of  saloons. 

About  one-fourth  of  the  Slovaks  are 
Protestants,  with  a  smaller  per  cent 
among  the  Bohemians,  and  a  negligible 
number  among  other  groups. 

The  Orthodox  Church  under  the  Holy 
Synod  of  Russia  has  fifty  churches 
in  this  country. 

The  Poles  have  ninety  churches  under 
an  independent  organization. 


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Among  the  Bohemians  there  is  a  grow¬ 
ing  “free  thought”  movement. 

Socialistic  and  anarchistic  movements 
are  also  prevalent. 

The  work  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  among  the  Slavs  is  carried  on 
by  special  workers,  missionaries, 
deaconesses,  and  language  pastors  in 
connection  with  the  English-speaking 
churches. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has  19 
Slavic  ministers  at  work  among  these 
immigrants. 

AMONG  THE  BOHEMIANS 

There  are  500,000  Bohemians  and  Mora¬ 
vians  living  in  the  United  States. 

The  greater  number  are  settled  in  Illi¬ 
nois,  Nebraska,  Wisconsin,  Iowa,  Mis¬ 
souri,  Kansas,  South  Dakota,  Ohio, 
and  Oklahoma. 

Texas  has  a  population  of  Bohemians 
numbering  50,000,  engaged  principally 
in  agriculture. 

Only  a  fraction  more  than  one  per  cent 
of  the  Bohemian  immigrants  are  illit¬ 
erate. 

More  than  one-half  of  them  are  skilled 
workmen. 

The  moral  level  of  the  Bohemian  is 
much  higher  than  that  of  any  other 
Slav  people. 

There  are  75  Bohemian  papers  pub¬ 
lished  in  the  United  States. 

Five  per  cent  of  the  Bohemians  are 
Protestants. 

The  general  tendency  among  Bohemians 
is  towards  skepticism  and  infidelity. 


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When  they  break  away  from  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church  they  generally  aban¬ 
don  all  religion. 

At  Berea,  Ohio,  the  Methodist  Church 
has  a  Slavic  department  in  the  Bald- 
win-Wallace  College  and  Nast  Theo¬ 
logical  Seminary. 

In  1915-16  twenty  immigrant  students, 
mostly  Bohemians,  and  Slovaks,  were 
educated  there  under  the  supervision 
of  a  Slavic  professor. 

POLISH  POINTERS 

In  1910  there  were  1,708,000  Poles  in 
the  United  States. 

They  have  settled  principally  in  North¬ 
ern  Illinois,  Wisconsin,  Minnesota,  the 
Dakotas,  Indiana  and  Ohio. 

About  half  a  million  Poles  reside  in 
New  York,  Pennsylvania  and  Illi¬ 
nois. 

Every  fifth  person  in  Buffalo  is  a  Pole. 

Of  the  Polish  immigrants,  35.4  per  cent 
are  illiterate,  and  are  unable  to  meet 
the  simplest  educational  tests  applied 
to  them  by  the  immigrant  authori¬ 
ties. 

Two-thirds  of  the  Poles  are  affiliated 
with  the  Roman  Catholic  Church, 
which  has  500  Polish  Churches  and 
missions. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has  a 
Sunday  School  for  Polish  children 
near  two  slaughter  houses  in  Buf¬ 
falo. 

The  Methodist  Church  is  working  among 
the  Poles  in  New  Jersey,  Michigan, 
New  York  and  Pennsylvania. 


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LITHUANIANS 

The  Lithuanians  number  in  all  7,000,000, 
and  212,000  of  them  in  1910  were  in 
the  United  States. 

There  are  15,000  Lithuanians  in  Pitts¬ 
burgh. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  works 
among  the  Lithuanians  in  Scranton, 
Boston,  East  Cambridge  and  Pitts¬ 
burgh. 

THE  MAGYARS 

The  Hungarian  (Magyar)  population  of 
the  United  States  numbered  at  least 
321,000,  in  1910. 

77,000  of  them  reside  in  New  York 
City. 

Cleveland,  Ohio,  has  about  32,000,  and 
Bridgeport,  Connecticut,  about  10,000. 

The  others  are  divided  among  New  Jer¬ 
sey,  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Virginias. 

At  home  the  Hungarian  is  a  farmer. 

In  this  country  he  works  in  factories 
and  mines. 

Among  the  Hungarian  population  in 
America,  100,000  are  Protestants. 

There  are  75  Hungarian  Protestant 
churches  and  missions  in  this  country. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  main¬ 
tains  Hungarian  work  in  South  Am¬ 
boy  and  Roosevelt,  New  Jersey. 


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THE  JEW  IN  AMERICA 

There  are  over  3,000,000  Jews  in  Amer¬ 
ica. 

In  New  York  City  alone  there  are  1,- 
450,000. 

Over  50  per  cent  of  these  people  are  of 
Western  and  Southwestern  Russian 
birth. 

Because  of  lack  of  funds  and  workers, 
very  little  is  being  done  by  the  Chris¬ 
tian  Church  for  the  Jews,  except  in 
Rochester,  New  York  City,  Trenton, 
Boston  and  Philadelphia. 

THE  CENTENARY  PROPOSES 

To  Christianize  and  Americanize  these 
groups. 

To  establish  more  churches  and  mis¬ 
sions. 

To  aid  in  the  betterment  of  their  social 
life. 

To  prepare  and  circulate  good  litera¬ 
ture  among  them. 

To  conduct  strong,  well-organized  evan¬ 
gelistic  campaigns  among  them. 

To  provide  additional  ministers,  mis¬ 
sionaries,  language  pastors,  directors 
of  religious  education,  women  work¬ 
ers,  deaconesses,  superintendents,  and 
other  helpers. 

For  work  among  the  peoples  of  the 
Eastern  European  groups,  the  Cente¬ 
nary  is  raising  $805,490. 


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THE  FINNS,  SYRIANS, 
FREN  CH-CAN  ADI  AN  S, 
ARMENIANS  AND 
GREEKS 

There  are  120,086  foreign-born  Finns  in 
America,  settled  principally  in  Michi¬ 
gan,  Minnesota,  Massachusetts,  and 
New  York. 

Many  volunteered  for  the  army  and 
tens  of  thousands  were  engaged  in  the 
industries  which  made  winning  the 
war  possible. 

The  Syrians  here  number  32,868  and 
live  mostly  in  New  York,  Massachu¬ 
setts,  Pennsylvania  and  Ohio. 

Canada,  from  its  French-Canadian  popu¬ 
lation,  has  contributed  more  to  New 
England’s  foreign-born  population 
than  any  other  country. 

During  the  last  five  years,  20,000  Ar¬ 
menians  have  been  driven  here  by  the 
atrocities  of  the  Turks. 

About  150,000  Armenians  are  now  in 
this  country  and  form  noticeable  colo¬ 
nies,  especially  in  New  York  and 
Massachusetts. 

The  United  States  has  also  a  popula¬ 
tion  of  118,379  foreign-born  Greeks, 
of  whom  Massachusetts  has  the  larg¬ 
est  number. 

In  this  group  of  immigrants,  except¬ 
ing  the  French-Canadians,  the  per¬ 
centage  of  unskilled  labor  and  illite¬ 
racy  is  large. 


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Crowded  housing  conditions  among 
these  people  result  in  low  standards 
of  living  and  morals. 

The  Syrian  immigrants  are  often  Chris¬ 
tian  although  many  of  their  kinsmen 
at  home  are  Mohammedans. 

French-Canadians  work,  for  the  most 
part,  in  the  mills  in  New  England 
where  they  keep  up  a  better  standard 
of  living  than  the  average  foreign 
group. 

The  greater  part  of  our  Armenian  popu¬ 
lation  is  established  on  the  Atlantic 
and  Pacific  seaboards. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  has  a 
ministry  among  the  Syrians  in  Phil¬ 
adelphia,  with  a  property  valued  at 
$20,000. 

It  has  Armenian  work  in  Worcester, 
Massachusetts,  and  Greek  work  in 
Lowell,  Massachusetts. 

THE  CENTENARY  PROPOSES 

Social  service  and  welfare  work  among 
these  people. 

Language  pastors,  directors  of  religious 
education,  women  workers,  visiting 
nurses,  and  deaconesses  connected 
with  English-speaking  Churches. 

Evangelistic  campaigns  and  classes  for 
teaching  English. 

Efforts  to  lift  the  standard  of  living. 

Movements  to  Americanize  these  people. 

For  these  tasks  the  Centenary  is  rais¬ 
ing  $198,750. 


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THE  AMERICAN  CITY 

1.  DOWNTOWN  POLYGLOT 
COMMUNITIES 

The  American  city  has  a  “downtown” 
problem. 

The  immigrant  colonizes  in  the  city. 

Forty  per  cent  of  the  population  of  the 
United  States  is  of  foreign  birth. 

New  York  City  alone  has  549,444  Italian 
residents,  7,000  more  than  Rome,  Italy. 

The  largest  Polish  city  in  the  United 
State  is  Buffalo,  where  they  number 
65,000. 

Thirty  per  cent  of  the  Poles  are  illite¬ 
rate  ;  two-thirds  are  affiliated  with  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church. 

The  largest  number  of  Swedes  in  any 
city  of  America  is  in  Chicago. 

The  percentage  of  illiteracy  among  the 
Swedes  is  less  than  one  per  cent. 

New  York  has  eighty  Greek  fraternal 
societies,  through  the  medium  of 
which  a  campaign  of  education  in 
civic  life  for  their  compatriots  is  go¬ 
ing  on  throughout  the  country. 

The  Slav  group  in  this  country  numbers 
about  three  million  people. 

One-third  of  the  city  of  Cleveland  is 
Slavic. 

The  Calumet  district  has  a  population  of 
25,000  workers,  fifty  per  cent  of 
which  are  foreign. 

In  the  town  of  Calumet  three  hundred 
people  were  housed  in  seven  rooms. 

In  one  house  a  mother,  daughter  and 
eighteen  boarders  shared  one  room. 


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The  number  of  foreign  born  unable  to 
sneak  the  English  language  has  risen 
one  hundred  and  forty-two  per  cent 
in  the  last  ten  years. 

Illiteracy  in  Fall  River  and  Lawrence, 
Massachusetts,  is  about  seventeen  per 
cent. 

Only  one  adult  immigrant  out  of  two 
hundred  and  fifty  is  sufficiently  in¬ 
terested  in  learning  the  English  lan¬ 
guage  to  attend  night  schools. 

THE  CENTENARY  PROPOSES 

To  establish  community  churches  in  ne¬ 
glected  sections,  and  neighborhood 
churches  in  polyglot  industrial  com¬ 
munities. 

To  establish  dormitories  as  a  step 
toward  the  solution  of  the  lodging 
house  problem,  and  classes  in  hygiene, 
domestic  science  and  industrial  crafts 
to  train  workers  for  the  foreign  born 
who  understand  their  racial  antece¬ 
dents  and  sympathize  with  their  strug¬ 
gles  in  the  new  world. 

To  make  the  church  a  center  for  Amer¬ 
icanizing  influence  and  training  in 
citizenship. 

For  work  among  the  downtown,  tran¬ 
sient,  polyglot  masses  $6,808,750  is  be¬ 
ing  raised. 

2.  CITY  INDUSTRIAL  COM¬ 
MUNITIES 

Of  the  38,000.000  men  and  women  en¬ 
gaged  in  industry  at  the  time  of  the 
1910  census  over  a  fourth,  10,000,000, 
were  employed  in  the  manufacturing 
and  mechanical  industries. 


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Industry  makes  as  many  cripples  as 
modern  battles  do,  numbering  upwards 
of  500,000  annually. 

The  wages  of  the  majority  makes  only 
the  narrowest  existence  possible. 

There  is  one  block  in  New  York  City 
whose  population  is  1,260  to  the  acre. 

Every  year  135,000  more  people  are 
added  to  New  York’s  permanent  popu¬ 
lation. 

In  one  section  of  Chicago  there  has 
been  a  recent  increase  in  population 
of  980. 

Overcrowding  lowers  moral  standards 
and  power  to  resist  disease. 

Most  cases  of  tuberculosis  occur  in 
cities  where  the  housing  conditions 
are  intolerable  and  where  wages  are 
below  a  living  minimum. 

Chester,  Pennsylvania,  grew  from  40,- 
000  to  80,000  population  during  the 
first  months  of  the  war,  and  no  new 
houses  were  built. 

21%  of  our  city  school  children  are  suf¬ 
fering  from  malnutrition,  and  61% 
are  undernourished. 

The  children  of  the  tenements  have  no 
other  playground  but  the  city  streets. 

The  government  has  discovered  the  ef¬ 
fects  of  clean  recreation  on  morals, 
physical  fitness,  and  mental  alertness. 

The  way  in  which  leisure  is  used  pro¬ 
foundly  affects  the  efficiency  of  the 
workers. 

War  has  shown  that  the  waste  of  over¬ 
production  in  industry,  the  waste  of 
unemployment,  the  problems  of  recrea- 


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tion  and  housing,  all  can  be  solved 
when  we  please. 

The  Church  should  meet  this  oppor¬ 
tunity. 

A  great  proportion  of  our  working 
classes  in  large  cities  is  entirely  out¬ 
side  of  religious  influences. 

There  are  many  downtown  churches 
abandoned  by  their  old  time  congre¬ 
gations  that  are  now  serving  no  useful 
purpose. 

The  Morgan  Memorial  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Church  in  Boston  is  rendering 
a  unique  service,  as  is  also  the  Cen¬ 
tral  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in 
Detroit. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  of  All 
Nations  in  New  York  is  all  that  the 
name  suggests. 

Halstead  Street  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  Chicago,  has  a  parish  of  50,- 
000  foreign-speaking  men,  women  and 
children. 

The  registration  and  investigation  of 
rooms  for  young  men  and  women  in 
city  industrial  communities  is  a  true 
service. 

The  abandoned  downtown  churches  may 
be  made  over  into  vital  community 
centers  equiped  with  classes  for  do¬ 
mestic  science,  with  gymnasiums  and 
recreational  activities.  They  may  also 
respond  to  all  the  other  needs  of  the 
people. 


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THE  CENTENARY  PROPOSES 

Revamping  old  family  churches  to  meet 
the  needs  of  industrial  communities. 

Providing  a  program  of  evangelization, 
religious  education  and  social  uplift. 

Maintaining  Christian  social  service  ex¬ 
perts. 

Building  neighborhood  churches  in  poly¬ 
glot  industrial  communities. 

Providing  vocational  training,  day  nurs¬ 
eries,  and  gymnasiums. 

For  use  in  industrial  communities 
$6,632,800  is  being  raised. 

STRATEGIC  CITY  AND  SUBUR¬ 
BAN  FIELDS 

In  strategic  city  fields  there  are  in¬ 
cluded  the  suburban  neighborhoods  of 
rapidly  growing  cities  and  the  unde¬ 
veloped  fields  in  older  towns. 

229  cities  of  more  than  25,000  inhabitants, 
each  with  its  own  circle  of  suburbs, 
present  a  problem  calling  for  the 
best  efforts  of  the  Church. 

Each  year  more  people  are  moving  to 
the  suburbs  in  search  of  healthier. liv¬ 
ing  conditions. 

The  physical  gain  is  often  offset  by  a 
dwindling  of  spiritual  life. 

Many  of  the  former  supporters  of  down¬ 
town  churches  become  inactive  after 
their  arrival  in  the  suburbs. 

A  Sunday  morning  spent  in  out-door 
recreation  becomes  more  attractive 
than  the  church  service. 

Also  the  suburbs  often  are  confronted 


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with  an  actual  lack  of  adequate 

__  churches  and  able  ministers. 

Sometimes  there  are  no  churches  at  all 
or  only  a  struggling  mission. 

Many  of  the  children  have  no  oppor¬ 
tunity  to  attend  Sunday  School. 

It  takes  some  time  for  a  new  suburb 
to  develop  a  community  consciousness; 
new  residents  are  slow  to  work  to¬ 
gether. 

Many  communities  are  churchless  be¬ 
cause  the  residents  lack  all  stimulus  to 
establish  a  church. 

Where  a  church  is  already  established 
it  often  proves  wholly  inadequate  to 
modern  needs. 

A  $5,000  church  makes  a  poor  showing 
beside  a  $100,000  library  or  a  $50,000 
school. 

The  lack  of  a  church  in  any  growing 
community  means  a  lessening  of  the 
general  welfare  of  every  class  of  peo¬ 
ple. 

The  older  neighborhoods  are  almost  en¬ 
tirely  residential. 

Their  population  is  frequently  English- 
speaking. 

In  these  prosperous  residential  sections 
the  church  is  too  apt  to  become  self- 
centered  and  lukewarm. 

It  forgets  its  missionary  opportunity 
and  the  obligation  to  its  own  com¬ 
munity. 

The  primary  religious  need  is  for  an 
efficiently  equipped  family  church. 

Within  a  generation  at  the  present  rate 
of  increase  three-fourths  of  the  na¬ 
tion’s  population  will  be  urban. 


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The  ultimate  fate  of  Methodism  depends 
upon  her  ability  to  meet  the  challenge 
of  urban  life. 

It  is  one  of  the  most  complex  of  mis¬ 
sionary  problems. 

THE  CENTENARY  PROPOSES 

To  build  more  suburban  churches  where 
the  present  plant  is  inadequate. 

It  will  furnish  stimulus  to  building  in 
promising  fields. 

It  will  provide  more  pastors. 

It  will  supplement  salaries  so  that  more 
able  men  may  be_secured  in  these  criti¬ 
cal  years. 

It  will  improve  and  enlarge  the  existing 
churches  to  fit  the  growing  needs. 

It  plans  to  make  the  church  a  community 
center  by  organizing  clubs,  lecture 
courses  and  social  affairs,  but  with 
an  emphasis  on  evangelism. 

The  Centenary  is  raising  $6,762,900  for 
use  in  strategic  city  and  suburban 
fields. 

GOODWILL  INDUSTRIES 

About  twelve  years  ago  the  first  Good¬ 
will  Industries  were  established  to  ad¬ 
minister  to  very  destitute  people. 

The  primary  purpose  was  to  provide 
work  for  the  workless. 

In  November,  1918,  the  Bureau  of  Good¬ 
will  Industries  of  the  Department  of 
City  Work,  of  the  Board  of  Home 
Missions  and  Church  Extension  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  was 
established. 


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IN  BOSTON 

In  Boston  these  industries  occupy  two 
very  large  buildings  six  stories  high, 
with  8,000  square  feet  on  a  floor. 

They  are  part  of  the  work  of  Morgan 
Memorial  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

Every  year  more  than  5,000  destitute 
people  find  temporary,  self-respecting 
employment  here. 

In  !  91 6  over  100,000  garments  were  re¬ 
paired  and  about  500,000  pieces  of  fur¬ 
niture  and  50,000  pairs  of  shoes  went 
through  the  shop. 

More  than  $54,000  was  paid  out  in  wages 
during  that  year. 

A  regular  staff  of  125  helpers  is  em¬ 
ployed  as  clerks  in  the  several  stores, 
as  foremen  in  the  various  workshops, 
as  chauffeurs,  and  bookkeepers. 

Every  morning  before  work  begins,  about 
300  people  gather  in  prayer  in  the 
Chapel  service. 

A  School  of  Handicraft  has  been  de¬ 
veloped  for  those  who  have  no  trade, 
or  who,  while  pursuing  a  vocation  for 
which  they  have  no  aptitude,  have 
failed. 

IN  SAN  FRANCISCO 

In  San  Francisco  the  Goodwill  Indus¬ 
tries  occupy  one  of  the  busiest  corn¬ 
ers  in  the  city. 

During  the  first  year  of  its  existence 
work  was  given  to  241  people. 

The  employment  bureau  found  jobs  for 
1 39  more. 


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The  total  sum  paid  for  wages  was 
$15,244.26. 

The  men  are  paid  not  less  than  $1.25 
a  day,  the  women  not  less  than  a  dol¬ 
lar. 

Clothes  are  mended,  cleaned  and  pressed, 
shoes  half-soled,  hats  overhauled  and 
retrimmed,  and  many  other  occupa¬ 
tions  engaged  in. 

In  the  furniture  department  old  men  of 
eighty-four  busily  upholster  furniture 
until  it  looks  like  new. 

With  a  capital  of  one  thousand  dollars, 
and  taking  only  the  waste  products  of 
the  people,  over  $27,000  was  received 
in  the  first  year. 

The  best  part  of  the  record  is  the  cour¬ 
age  which  has  been  put  into  the  weary, 
hopeless  lives  of  hundreds  of  jobless 
men  and  women. 

IN  OTHER  CITIES 

Goodwill  Industries  also  have  been  or¬ 
ganized  in  Los  Angeles,  Denver,  St 
Louis,  Cincinnati,  Cleveland,  and 
Brooklyn. 

NEW  HOPES  FOR  OLD 

"The  Industries  are  not  run  for  profit,” 
but  all  the  income  goes  to  training  of 
the  laborers  and  for  the  relief  of  the 
poor. 

The  Goodwill  Industries  are  taking  the 
things  no  longer  wanted  by  the  well- 
to-do  and  are  converting  this  waste 
into  self-respecting  wages  to  those 
who  need  work. 


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Goodwill  methods  supplant  alms  and 
patronage  with  self-respecting  self- 
support. 

They  pay  self-respecting  wages  to  the 
persons  who  perform  the  work  of  re¬ 
pair,  cleaning  and  restoration,  and 
while  these  persons  are  about  their 
task,  the  Industries  teach  them  a  trade. 

It  takes  more  skill  to  mend  or  make 
over  a  second-hand  piece  of  furniture 
or  clothing  or  an  article  of  headgear 
or  foot-wear  than  to  make  the  original 
article. 

Goodwill  Industries  are  turning  out  ex¬ 
pert  cobblers,  cabinet  makers,  uphol¬ 
sterers,  tailors,  milliners,  dressmakers, 
etc.,  etc. 

In  these  days  of  reconstruction  the 
Goodwill  Industries  propose  to  help 
the  unskilled  soldier  and  the  unskilled 
civilian  find  a  useful  place  in  the 
economic  order. 

$75,000  is  needed  to  equip  a  Goodwill 
Industry.  In  5  years  the  enterprise 
will  be  self-supporting  and  the  origi¬ 
nal  investment  intact. 

If  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in 
thirty  American  cities  would  develop 
a  work  as  large  as  that  of  Morgan 
Memorial,  it  would  give  work  every 
year  to  120,000  destitute  people. 

It  would  pay  them  in  self-respecting 
wages  every  year,  $2,100,000. 

It  would  preach  the  gospel  by  precept 
and  example  to  thousands  it  now  does 
not  reach  at  all. 


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TRAINING  LEADERS 

THE  UNIVERSITY  PASTOR 

There  are  25,000  Methodist  Episcopal 
young  people  enrolled  in  90  State  uni¬ 
versities  in  this  country. 

Forty-two  per  cent  of  these  Methodist 
students  are  there  for  technical  and 
advanced  courses  which  cannot  be  se¬ 
cured  at  Methodist  Episcopal  colleges 
and  universities. 

It  is  imperative  that  Methodism  hold 
tnese  young  people  and  train  them  for 
future  leadership. 

This  work  of  the  ’‘University  Pastor”  is 
done  under  the  supervision  of  a  Joint 
Committee  of  the  Board  of  Education, 
and  the  Board  of  Home  Missions  and 
Church  Extension  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church. 

A  definite  policy  has  been  worked  out, 
based  on  the  results  of  a  conference 
with  all  the  Methodist  Episcopal  work¬ 
ers  at  the  State  universities. 

This  policy  aims  to  adapt  the  program 
of  the  Church  to  the  spiritual,  social, 
and  recreational  needs  of  the  otudents, 
and  encourages  general  cooperation 
with  the  local  Methodist  group. 

In  the  absence  of  a  program  of  religious 
instruction  in  the  State  universities, 
the  Church  aims  to  supply  that  need 
through  lectures,  study  courses,  Bible 
classes  and  regular  Sunday  School 
activities,  and  young  people’s  socie¬ 
ties. 


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Thus  are  brought  to  the  students  the 
fundamentals  of  the  Christian  religion, 
a  workable  and  intellectual  knowledge 
of  the  Bible,  and  answers  to  the  many 
questions  which  naturally  come  to  the 
growing  intellect  under  the  stimulus  of 
modern  science  and  literature. 

The  recreational  and  social  life  of  the 
students  is  provided  for  under  con¬ 
ditions  where  the  atmosphere  is  whole¬ 
some  and  elevating. 

The  future  Christian  usefulness  of  the 
students  is  developed  by  acquainting 
them  with  the  opportunities  for  service 
in  the  church. 

They  are  made  familiar  with  problems 
which  belong  to  modern  Christian  effi¬ 
ciency. 

The  students  are  given  actual  tasks  of 
Christian  service  which  they  perform 
under  competent  supervision. 

The  morals  of  the  nation  depend  on  the 
vision  for  Christian  service  which  uni¬ 
versity  students  carry  with  them  into 
their  various  life  fields. 

Only  pastors  of  the  strongest  personali¬ 
ties  can  succeed  in  this  kind  of  work. 

The  Board  of  Education  is  ready  to  take 
up  the  larger  task  of  training  men  for 
this  specialized  form  of  ministry. 

WESLEY  FOUNDATIONS 

The  Wesley  Foundation  at  the  Univers¬ 
ity  of  Illinois  is  an  illustration  of  the 
possibilities  of  this  student  work. 

Upwards  of  1,200  students  in  the  Uni¬ 
versity  of  Illinois  are  Methodists. 


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In  this  one  university  last  year  there 
were  163  students  from  35  countries 
other  than  the  United  States. 

The  work  done  for  students  by  Trinity 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  at  Ur- 
bana,  Illinois,  the  seat  of  the  Uni¬ 
versity,  has  outgrown  the  present 
church  plant. 

A  new  equipment  is  needed  to  enable 
Methodism  to  measure  up  to  its  duty 
in  this  University  where  experts  in 
engineering,  agriculture,  law,  medi¬ 
cine,  and  other  professions  are  being 
trained. 

A  $500,000  fund  is  being  raised  for  the 
erection  of  a  church  building,  a  social 
center  building,  and  the  beginning  of 
an  endowment  fund. 

The  Board  of  Home  Missions  and 
Church  Extension  has  already  given 
$10,000  towards  this  fund. 

Since  the  incorporation  of  the  Wfesley 
Foundation  at  the  University  of  Illi¬ 
nois,  eight  other  Wesley  Foundations 
have  been  established  at  other  great 
State  universities. 

As  fast  as  funds  are  available,  the  Board 
of  Home  Missions  and  Church  Ex¬ 
tension  will  help  establish  Christian 
training  plants  on  the  campus  of  every 
one  of  the  State  universities  and  agri¬ 
cultural  colleges. 

There  are  fifty  centers  where  work 
among  State  university  Methodist 
Episcopal  students  has  been  begun. 

In  few  instances  is  there  anything  like 
adequate  equipment  or  staff. 


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The  outstanding  needs  are  buildings  for 
student  centers,  class  room  work  and 
worship. 

In  some  places  the  only  available  quart¬ 
ers  are  rented  halls  or  buildings. 

There  is  a  wide  and  fertile  field  for 
cultivation  in  State  universities,  aside 
from  the  large  body  of  Methodist 
students. 

Just  before  the  War,  there  were  in  tax- 
supported  colleges  and  universities  in 
America  over  150,000  students. 

What  an  evangelistic  challenge  this  re¬ 
markable  group  of  young  people  pre¬ 
sents  to  the  Christian  Church ! 

THE  CENTENARY  PROPOSES 

To  strengthen  regular  Methodist  Episco¬ 
pal  Churches  near  student  groups. 

To  provide  a  student  building,  or  Wes¬ 
ley  Foundation,  in  State  and  inde¬ 
pendent  institutions  having  large  num¬ 
bers  of  Methodist  students. 

To  appropriate  $125,000  in  fellowships 
and  scholarships  for  future  leaders. 

To  provide  special  training  for  ministers 
already  in  the  field  who  cannot  leave 
their  pastorates. 

To  establish  training  schools  for  Chris¬ 
tian  leadership  in  connection  with 
some  recognized  educational  institu¬ 
tion. 

To  furnish  enlarged  educational  facilities 
for  training  leaders  to  work  among 
Latin-Americans  and  Orientals. 

For  this  large-visioned  program  the 
Centenary  is  raising  $2,694,450. 


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RECONSTRUCTION  AT 
HOME 

THE  NEW  TASK 

War  has  brought  new  experiences. 

Immediate  emergencies  have  arisen. 

Camp  zone  church  equipment  and 
ministry  must  be  kept  up. 

Obligations  in  war  industrial  centers 
must  be  met. 

Educational  problems  for  the  return¬ 
ing  boys  await  us. 

A  new  necessity  for  community  service 
greets  the  Church  in  the  United 
States. 

The  care  of  war  orphans  at  home  and 
abroad,  broader  ministries  in  Chris¬ 
tian  Americanization,  and  more  hos¬ 
pital  facilities  for  our  maimed  sol¬ 
diers  and  sailors  are  necessary. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
must  provide  for  its  share  of  these 
new  tasks  without  delay. 

The  new  industrial  centers  created  by 
the  government  look  to  the  Church 
for  spiritual  guidance. 

The  opportunity  of  making  Christian 
Americans  of  our  non-English 
speaking  population  has  suddenly 
become  an  urgent  necessity. 

More  than  10,000  students  from  Meth¬ 
odist  Episcopal  Colleges  were  under 
arms. 

Many  of  these  boys  will  be  unable  to 
complete  their  education  unless 
Methodism  helps. 


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Equipped  educationally,  they  will  aug¬ 
ment  the  leadership  of  Church  and 
State. 

War  scholarships  will  enable  them  to 
prepare  to  render  untold  service. 

The  orphans  of  Methodist  men  who 
have  died  in  the  Nation’s  service 
must  have  a  chance. 

What  a  father  died  for  must  be  made 
available  for  his  fatherless  lad  and 
lass. 

Provision  must  be  made  for  the  sup¬ 
port  and  education  of  these  chidren. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
must  father  them  and  supply  their 
needs. 

The  Christ  must  minister  through  the 
Church  to  the  bodies  maimed  in 
battle. 

Buildings,  hospital  facilities,  and  money 
must  be  furnished  to  help  recon¬ 
struct  the  shattered  bodies  of  our 
boys  so  that  they  may  be  self-sup¬ 
porting. 

These  War  Emergencies  and  Home 
Reconstruction  obligations  are  an  in¬ 
tegral  part  of  the  program  of  the 
Board  of  Home  Missions  and  Church 
Extension,  the  enlarging  of  which  has 
been  necessitated  by  the  war. 

The  Centenary  will  raise  $2,500,000 
for  these  tasks  in  the  United  States 
for  1919. 


IfiO 


EVANGELISM 

The  Master’s  summons  to  fellowship 
with  Him  has  never  lost  its  force. 

Without  it  our  missionary  endeavors 
are  futile. 

Interpreting  Christ  is  the  home  mis¬ 
sionary’s  fundamental  mission. 

Evangelism  has  ever  been  a  clear  com¬ 
pelling  note  in  the  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Church. 

The  form  of  evangelistic  presenta¬ 
tion  varies  as  the  times  demand. 

The  fundamental  teaching  ever  re¬ 
mains  the  same. 

The  increasing  complexity  of  life  nec¬ 
essitates  new  points  of  contact. 

Economic  problems  call  for  Christian 
solution. 

Industrial  difficulties  demand  state¬ 
ment  of  Christian  principle  and  ap¬ 
plication  of  Christian  practice. 

Education  challenges  the  Gospel  to 
meet  it  on  an  intellectual  plane. 

Morals  and  ethics  run  wild  without  its 
poise  and  sustaining  spirit. 

Evangelism  has  to-day  become  a  func¬ 
tion  of  Home  Missions. 

The  Department  of  Evangelism  is 
Methodism’s  response  to  an  urgent 
necessity. 

It  has  a  Committee  on  Evangelism 
in  each  Annual  Conference. 

There  is  both  a  Conference  and  Dis¬ 
trict  program  of  evangelism. 


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It  stimulates  pastoral  and  personal 
evangelism. 

It  urges  evangelism  of  the  ear  and  of 
the  eye. 

It  seeks  to  counteract  the  soap-box 
orators. 

It  believes  in  out-door  preaching  and 
shop  meetings. 

It  urges  continuous  evangelism  in 
Sunday  School  and  Epworth  League. 

It  conducts  coaching  conferences  in 
evangelism  for  pastors. 

It  places  District  Evangelists  under 
District  Superintendents. 

It  conducts  a  Bureau  of  Accredited 
Methodist  Episcopal  Evangelists. 

It  trains  lay  members  and  young  peo¬ 
ple  in  personal  evangelism. 

It  furthers  social  and  industrial  evan¬ 
gelism. 

The  religious  renaissance  which  has 
come  out  of  the  war  has  proved 
that  vital  spiritual  life  is  a  pro¬ 
found  necessity. 

To  overcome  inertia  and  indifference 
within  the  Church  and  to  renew 
the  spirit  of  personal  evangelism 
is  one  of  the  chief  aims  of  the  Cen¬ 
tenary  of  Methodist  Missions. 

In  order  that  the  Department  of 
Evangelism  of  the  Board  of  Home 
Missions  and  Church  Extension  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
may  do  its  work  adequately,  the 
Centenary  is  raising  $201,000  for  its 
varied  program. 


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CHURCH  EXTENSION 


A -PAGE  FROM  THE  PAST 

The  first  Church  Extension  Society  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  was 
organized  in  1854  by  Dr.  A.  J.  Kynett 
and  other  Iowa  Methodists  to  aid 
settlers  in  the  West  to  provide  at 
once  houses  and  churches. 

The  Church  Extension  Society  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  was  or¬ 
ganized  by  the  General  Conference 
of  1864. 

The  first  movement  for  a  Loan  Fund 
was  worked  out  in  1856  by  Method¬ 
ists  of  the  Upper  Iowa  Conference. 

In  1873  the  Loan  Fund  for  the  whole 
Church  was  proposed  and  adopted 
by  General  Conference. 

An  annuity  feature  was  added  in  1870. 

In  1873  the  Church  Extension  Society 
became  the  Board  of  Church  Exten¬ 
sion. 

I  In  1907,  when  the  work  of  the  Meth¬ 
odist  Missionary  Society  was  div¬ 
ided,  the  home  mission  activities 
were  merged  with  the  Board  of 
Church  Extension  under  the  cor¬ 
porate  name  of  the  Board  of  Home 
Missions  and  Church  Extension  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

The  Church  Extension  Society  and 
the  Board  of  Church  Extension 
labored  forty-one  years. 

During  those  forty-one  years,  $9,067,- 


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763.68  was  received  and  distributed 
from  its  treasury. 

15,000  churches  were  aided  from  this 
fund. 

3,000  churches  were  among  the  Negro 
constituency,  1,800  among  the  white 
constituency  of  the  South,  7,000  of 
them  beyond  the  Mississippi  River, 
and  others  in  every  corner  of  the 
country. 

THE  PROCESS 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  at 
large  provides  the  money  used  to 
help  build  churches  in  the  needy 
communities. 

Each  congregation  gives  annually  an 
offering  for  home  missions  and 
church  extension,  and  the  propor¬ 
tion  to  be  used  for  each  is  decided 
by  the  Board  at  its  annual  meeting. 

When  a  church  needs  a  loan  an  ap¬ 
plication  endorsed  by  the  pastor, 
Board  of  Trustees,  and  the  District 
Superintendent  is  sent  to  the  An¬ 
nual  Conference  Board  of  Home 
Missions  and  Church  Extension  and, 
when  approved  by  them,  to  the  De¬ 
partment  of  Church  Extension  in 
Philadelphia  for  its  approval  and 
recommendation  to  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  and  Church  Ex¬ 
tension. 

The  trusteeship  of  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  and  Church  Exten¬ 
sion  meets  the  fullest  requirements 
of  the  business  world  in  the  hand¬ 
ling  of  its  trust. 


164 


Without  the  help  of  the  Loan  Fund 
many  Methodist  Episcopal  churches 
would  be  forced  to  close  their  doors. 

With  the  best  of  security  no  church 
can  borrow  over  $5,000  except  under 
very  special  conditions. 

To  secure  a  loan  a  church  must  give 
a  first  mortgage  for  the  amount 
received  and  the  trustees  a  bond 
personally,  as  well  as  officially,  for 
the  prompt  payment  of  the  princi¬ 
pal  and  interest  at  five  per  cent. 

The  purpose  of  the  Loan  Fund  is 
church  extension  and  not  merely 
church  relief. 

The  Loan  Fund  now  amounts  to  $2,- 

000,000. 

THE  OPPORTUNITY  FUND 

Help  must  be  given  in  some  places  by 
the  thousands  of  dollars. 

It  is  being  given  from  the  Opportun¬ 
ity  Fund,  authorized  in  1915. 

It  is  made  up  from  increases  in  col¬ 
lections  from  the  churches  and  un¬ 
designated  bequests. 

Help  is  given  from  this  Fund  on  con¬ 
dition  that  the  local  church  raise  at 
least  three  dollars  for  every  dollar  re¬ 
ceived. 

During  the  first  year  the  gifts  from 
the  Opportunity  Fund  and  the 
amounts  raised  by  the  churches  re¬ 
ceiving  help  equalled  $800,000. 


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THE  MEMORIAL  CHURCH 

Scattered  over  the  country  are  over 
900  Memorial  Methodist  Episcopal 
Churches. 

They  are  built  in  memory  of  some 
loved  one  who  has  died. 

A  gift  of  $250  gives  the  donor  the 
privilege  of  naming  the  church 
which  must  cost  not  less  than  $2,000. 

A  gift  of  $350  insures  a  $3,000  church; 
$500,  a  $4,000  church. 

THE  BUREAU  OF 
ARCHITECTURE 

To  have  suitable  churches  erected  in 
the  different  communities,  there  is  a 
Bureau  of  Architecture  of  the  Meth¬ 
odist  Episcopal  Church,  conducted 
under  the  joint  auspices  of  the  Board 
of  Sunday  Schools  and  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  and  Church  Extension. 

The  aim  of  this  Bureau  is  to  meet 
the  demands  of  the  timjes  in  style 
of  architecture  and  to  guide  con¬ 
gregations  to  a  broader  outlook  when 
they  contemplate  building. 

CENTENARY  PLANS 

The  Church  Extension  features  of  the 
Centenary  program  of  the  Board  of 
Home  Missions  and  Church  Exten¬ 
sion  includes  2,506  new  buildings; 
the  remodeling  of  1,035;  the  erect¬ 
ing  of  1,188  parsonages;  and  43  spe¬ 
cial  buildings,  a  total  of  4,772,  at  a 
cost  of  $62,007,350  of  which  the  Cen¬ 
tenary  askings  call  for  $28,771,845. 


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CENTENARY  HOME 
MISSION  ASKINGS 

Projects  Centenary- 


Rural  work  . 

2,912 

Askings 

$5,135,295 

City  work  (including 
industrial  groups, 
downtown  polyglot 
masses,  and  miscel¬ 
laneous  foreign 
speak  groups)  .... 

892 

13,945,500 

Suburbs  and  Residen- 

tial  Districts  . 

1,255 

6,641,500 

Immigrants  (including 
Italians  and  Slav 
groups)  . 

281 

2,393,490 

ndians,  Mormons,  Lat- 
in-Americans,  Japan¬ 
ese,  and  Chinese  .... 

415 

1,831,860 

Alaska,  Hawaii,  and 

Porto  Rico . . 

180 

931,805 

Negro  in  the  North, 
Negro  in  the  South, 
and  Mountain  Whites 

1,890 

4,254,175 

Frontier  . . . 

1,507 

2,014,835 

Training  of  Christian 

Leadership  . 

124 

2,682,950 

Evangelism  . 

46 

206,000 

9,502  $40,037,410 

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WHAT  MONEY 
WILL  DO 

IN  METHODIST  EPISCOPAL 
HOME  MISSION  FIELDS 

$5  will  put  ten  Opportunity  Bags  in  a 
Goodwill  Industries. 

$5  will  build  20  cubic  feet  of  the  Plaza 
Community  Center,  or  30  cubic  feet  of 
one  of  the  buildings  of  the  Spanish- 
American  Institute  at  Los  Angeles. 

$5  will  buy  twenty  Bibles  in  Spanish, 
Italian,  or  French. 

$5  will  supply  a  Mexican  or  Portuguese 
Sunday  School  six  months. 

$5  will  provide  500  to  5,000  Latin- 
American  Tracts. 

$6  will  send  a  Gospel  Messenger  300 
miles  visiting  Latin-American  Colo¬ 
nies  in  the  Southwest. 

$5  up  will  buy  Victrola  records  for  an 
Institutional  Church. 

$5  will  enable  3  foreign  boys  to  at¬ 
tend  a  class  in  carpentry  for  one  week 
at  the  Broadway  Methodist  Church, 
Cleveland,  Ohio. 

$5  will  keep  five  boys  off  the  city 
streets  for  thirty  evenings. 

$5  will  rent  a  Gymnasium  4  hours 
each  week  in  a  Bohemian  Church. 

$5-$50  will  buy  kitchen  supplies  such  as 
linen,  silverware,  tables,  electric  irons, 
etc.,  for  an  Institutional  Church. 


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$5-$50  will  buy  gymnasium  supplies,  in¬ 
door  balls,  bats,  basket  balls,  etc.,  for 
an  Institutional  Church. 

$5  will  purchase  framed  pictures  for  mis¬ 
sion  churches  in  New  York  City  and 
other  Cities. 

$5  will  provide  a  day’s  outing  at  the  sea 
shore  for  25  mothers  and  babies  from 
an  Italian  Methodist  Church. 

$5  will  purchase  a  medicine  ball  for  a 
City  Church. 

$10  will  provide  a  basket  ball  for  a  for¬ 
eign-speaking  Church. 

$10  will  provide  the  “movies”  for  a 
night’s  entertainment  for  500  young 
Italians. 

$10  will  buy  a  basket  ball  for  the  use 
of  the  foreign  boys  and  men. 

$10  per  month  will  provide  a  trained 
primary  Sunday  School  teacher  for  a 
Church  of  All  Nations. 

$10  per  month  will  pay  the  carfare  of 
a  teacher  for  an  Immigrant  Sunday 
School. 

$10  will  give  a  working  girl  a  two 
weeks’  outing. 

$10  will  pay  for  an  Italian  kindergarten 
for  two  days. 

$10  will  furnish  a  library  for  a  Span¬ 
ish  Sunday  School  or  Church  use. 

$10  will  provide  books  of  the  course  of 
study  of  a  foreign-speaking  pastor  in 
training. 

$10  will  publish  300  copies  of  “El  Mex- 
icano”  for  distribution  among  the 
Mexican  immigrants  of  the  South¬ 
west. 

$10  will  support  a  Latin- American  stu- 


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dent  a  month  at  the  Spanish-Ameri- 
can  Institute. 

$10  will  pay  a  month’s  “salary”  of  a 
Gospel  messenger  to  Mexicans  in  the 
best  country  of  Southern  California. 

$10  will  pay  for  several  “adobes,”  ce¬ 
ment  blocks,  in  the  Plaza  Institutional 
Church  to  be  built  by  the  Centenary 
in  Los  Angeles,  California. 

$10  will  furnish  thread,  buttons,  needles, 
and  scissors  for  the  sewing  class  in 
an  Italian  Methodist  Church. 

$10  will  take  a  party  of  city  boys  to 
camp  for  two  days. 

$10  will  purchase  copies  of  the  United 
States  Constitution  to  be  studied  in 
the  American  Citizenship  Class  at  a 
foreign-speaking  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church. 

$10  will  buy  books  of  patriotic  songs  for 
the  Glee  Club  of  a  foreign-speaking 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

$10  will  furnish  song  books  for  a  Negro 
Church. 

$15  will  conduct  a  cooking  class  for  ten 
foreign  girls  through  a  year’s  work. 

$15  per  month  will  pay  the  salary  of  a 
teacher  in  a  Methodist  Episcopal 
Italian  night  school. 

$15  will  give  a  mother  and  baby  from 
the  slums  a  two  weeks’  outing  at  the 
shore. 

$15  will  buy  a  crib  for  the  day  and  night 
nursery  in  an  Italian  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church. 

$1 5  will  buy  a  dozen  baby  chairs  or  a 
garden  swing  for  a  Church  nursery. 

$15  will  purchase  a  camping  outfit  for 


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Italian  Methodist  Episcopal  boys  and 
girls. 

$20  will  pay  the  cost  of  15  boys  for  30 
weeks  in  a  carpentry  class  at  a 
Methodist  Episcopal  foreign-speaking 
Church. 

$20  will  provide  a  month’s  outing  at  the 
seashore  for  foreign-speaking  chil¬ 
dren  from  the  city  tenement  section. 

$25  will  pay  the  expenses  of  a  pastor 
to  a  training  school  for  rural  leader¬ 
ship.  1,500  pastors  are  to  be  trained 
each  year  for  the  next  five  years. 

$35  will  provide  tools  for  a  carpentry 
class  among  foreign  boys. 

$40  will  provide  a  sewing  machine  for 
foreign-speaking  city  church. 

$40  will  buy  a  good  warm  coat  for  a 
preacher  on  the  western  frontier  and 
enable  him  to  ride  about  the  country 
at  40  below  zero. 

$40  will  furnish  a  laundry  stove  for 
Albuquerque  College. 

$40  will  provide  instruments  for  a 
young  people’s  drum  corps  at  the 
Jefferson  Park  Italian  Methodist 
Church  in  New  York  City. 

$50  will  buy  a  Communion  Service  for 
an  Institutional  Church. 

$50  will  buy  sand  tables  for  an  Insti¬ 
tutional  Church. 

$50  will  provide  maps  and  charts  for 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Anglo-Japa- 
nese  School,  San  Francisco. 

$50  will  provide  an  office  typewriter  for 
the  Anglo-Japanese  School  at  San 
Francisco. 

$50  annually  will  care  for  a  boy  in  the 

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George  O.  Robinson  School  for  Boys, 
at  Hatillo,  Porto  Rico. 

$50  will  provide  a  telescope  for  Al¬ 
buquerque  College. 

$50  will  provide  a  sewing  machine  for 
the  sewing  class  in  an  institutional 
church. 

$50  will  pay  for  2  traveling  libraries  for 
rural  pastors  and  rural  communities. 

$50  will  pay  for  an  instructor  on  rural 
life  at  an  Epworth  League  Institute, 
camp-meeting  or  small  gathering. 

$60  will  furnish  six  stationary  bath 
tubs  in  Albuquerque  College,  New 
Mexico. 

$100  annually  will  pay  all  the  expenses 
for  educating  a  native  Porto  Rican 
minister,  including  his  home  and 
board. 

$100  will  keep  a  girl  in  school  in  Porto 
Rico  for  one  year,  and  train  her  for 
Christian  service. 

$125  will  keep  a  boy  in  school  in  Ha¬ 
waii  for  one  year. 

$125  will  provide  a  full  scholarship  for 
a  year  for  a  Latin-American  boy  in 
the  Spanish-American  Institute. 

$200  will  start  a  Japanese  Day  School 
in  California. 

$200  per  year  will  provide  a  teacher 
in  the  Anglo-Japanese  School  at  San 
Francisco 

$225  will  take  35  children,  8  mothers, 
and  8  babies  from  the  foreign  con¬ 
stituency  of  the  Broadway  Methodist 
Church ,  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  give 
them  a  summer  outing  for  a  period 
of  ten  days. 


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$250  will  provide  a  scholarship  for  a 
young  man  or  woman  training  for 
special  work  among  foreign-speaking 
groups  in  rural  communities. 

$250  a  year  for  five  years  will  provide 
a  small  chapel  for  one  of  several 
communities  in  Porto  Rico  where  the 
Methodists  are  unable  to  erect  a  large 
chapel. 

$300  will  install  electric  lights  in  Al¬ 
buquerque  College. 

$300  will  provide  support  of  one  of  the 
Japanese  Methodist  Episcopal  preach¬ 
ers  on  the  Pacific  coast  at  a  salary 
of  $720.  The  difference  can  be  raised 
by  the  congregation. 

$350  will  pay  the  Home  Missions  share 
toward  the  support  of  a  visiting  rural 
nurse  until  such  time  as  the  District 
can  pay  for  her  entire  services.  450 
at  least,  of  these  are  needed. 

$400  will  enable  the  Methodists  of  Milk 
River  District,  North  Montana  Con¬ 
ference,  to  erect  a  parsonage  in  some 
new  frontier  town  so  the  community 
may  have  at  least  one  resident  cler¬ 
gyman.  15  such  parsonage  appropria¬ 
tions  are  needed  in  this  rapid  devel¬ 
oping  territory. 

$400  will  sustain  a  worker  among  3,000 
people  near  a  railway  division  point 
and  machine  shop  in  Nevada. 

$400  added  to  the  amount  raised  on  the 
field  will  provide  for  a  Bible  Woman 
in  Hawaii.  11  Bible  Women  must  be 
assisted  in  this  manner. 

$500  each  for  6  churches  and  $500  each 
for  three  years  for  6  preachers  are 

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needed  on  the  Fort  Peck  Indian  re¬ 
servation  which  is  80  miles  long  and 
40  miles  wide. 

$500  will  provide  the  Home  Missions 
share  toward  the  support  of  a  trained 
rural  pastor  on  a  charge  where  Meth¬ 
odism  has  sole  responsibility  and 
can  be  brought  to  help  the  support 
within  a  reasonable  time  under  such 
leadership.  2,500  such  charges  are  in 
need  of  such  help. 

$500  will  pay  for  an  automobile  for 
District  Superintendents  in  the  rural 
missionary  territories.  At  least  300 
automobiles  should  be  provided  for 
District  Superintendents  and  150  more 
for  rural  missionaries. 

$500  will  help  toward  making  rural 
parsonages  safe  and  comfortable  for 
the  families  of  rural  missionaries. 

$500  added  to  the  amount  raised  on  the 
field  will  provide  for  a  Filipino  pastor 
in  Hawaii.  9  Filipino  pastors  are 
needed. 

$500  each  for  6  Fords  will  enable  that 
many  Home  Missionaries  in  Nevada 
to  hold  services  at  three  different 
places  on  Sunday,  and  enable  them  to 
visit  the  distant  ranches  and  hillside 
mines,  also  to  answer  distant  emer¬ 
gency  calls  quickly. 

$500  each  for  5  Ford  cars  will  turn  5 
preachers  of  LaGrande  District,  Idaho 
Conference,  into  the  equivalent  of  20, 
by  enabling  them  to  cover  territory 
now  unreached.  This  District  equals 
Massachusetts,  New  Hampshire  and 
Vermont  in  size. 


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$500  donated  to  any  of  25  congregations 
newly  established  frontier  communi¬ 
ties  on  Milk  River  District,  North 
Montana  Conference,  will  enable  the 
local  church  to  become  self-supporting 
in  a  few  years. 

$500  will  enable  a  pastor  on  a  western 
circuit  to  buy  a  car  and  cover  at  least 
five  times  as  much  territory  as  with 
the  best  driving  team. 

$500  will  supply  a  trained,  single,  native 
Mexican  pastor  for  one  year  in  the 
Southwest. 

$500  will  supply  a  trained  woman  re¬ 
ligious  director  for  six  months’  work 
in  Southern  California. 

$500  will  make  it  within  the  reach  of  a 
small  group  of  Methodists  to  substi¬ 
tute  a  chapel  at  Mons,  Washington, 
for  the  school  house  in  which  they 
now  worship. 

$500  will  furnish  a  trained  leader  for  a 
waiting  colored  congregation. 

$500  will  assure  the  purchase  of  a  par¬ 
sonage  for  colored  minister  and  his 
family;  the  people  paying  the  remain¬ 
der. 

$500  will  pay  one-third  of  the  cost  of  a 
rural  Negro  church  building. 

$500  will  pay  one-half  of  the  cost  of  an 
annex  building  for  community  service 
among  the  Negroes  of  the  South. 

$500  ($!00  annually  for  five  years)  will 
build  a  neat  chapel  in  any  one  of  50 
country  communities  of  Porto  Rico. 
These  may  be  made  Memorial  Chap¬ 
els. 


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$600  will  buy  a  Ford  truck  for  Albu¬ 
querque  College,  New  Mexico. 

$600  added  to  the  amount  raised  on  the 
field  will  provide  for  a  Japanese 
preacher  in  Hawaii.  10  preachers 
must  be  assisted  with  this  amount. 

$600  added  to  the  amount  raised  on  the 
field  will  provide  for  a  Korean  preach¬ 
er  in  Hawaii.  A  number  of  these 
preachers  are  needed  at  once. 

$720  to  $1,000  will  provide  a  Director  of 
Religious  Education  in  Downtown 
City  Institutional  Churches. 

$750  will  provide  ten  scholarships  for 
one  year  in  Albuquerque  College,  New 
Mexico,  for  Spanish-speaking  boys. 

$750  will  purchase  an  auto  truck  for 
the  Plaza  Institutional  Church  in  Los 
Angeles. 

$1,000  will  pay  the  Home  Missions  share 
toward  additional  buildings  for  rural 
community  service  facilities. 

$1,000  a  year  will  pay  the  Home  Mis¬ 
sions  share  toward  the  support  of  a 
professor  of  rural  leadership  in  a 
Methodist  Episcopal  college  or  theo¬ 
logical  seminary.  Many  Methodist 
colleges  and  seminaries  are  now  ready 
to  inaugurate  this  work  with  the  co¬ 
operation  of  the  Department  of  Rural 
Work  of  the  Board  of  Home  Mis¬ 
sions  and  Church  Extension. 

$1,000  will  provide  a  trained  woman 
worker  for  a  rural  District  in  the 
United  States.  450  trained  women 
workers  should  be  provided. 

$1,000  will  provide  for  an  American 
Kindergarten  instructor  for  the  Jap- 

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anese  of  Hawaii.  2  of  these  teachers 
are  needed  now. 

$1,000  will  place  a  traveling  Bible  School 
Missionary  over  a  territory  in  Nevada 
including  many  small  towns  where 
there  are  no  church  or  Sunday  School 
services. 

$1,000  will  place  a  Traveling  Deaconess 
in  Nevada  to  visit  the  women  isolated 
in  small  settlements  and  encourage 
them  in  the  spiritual  life  and  in  the 
proper  nurture  of  their  children. 

$1,000  will  place  a  worker  in  a  new  set¬ 
tlement  in  Nevada  formed  by  the  open¬ 
ing  up  of  irrigation  systems  by  the 
Government. 

$1,000  will  provide  a  new  Church  for 
San  Jose,  California,  Chinese  in  place 
of  an  old  storeroom,  now  in  use. 

$1,000  will  support  the  Mission  for 
Blackfeet  and  Piegan  Indians  in  Mon¬ 
tana  for  one  year. 

$1,000  will  fully  support  a  trained  effi¬ 
cient  Mexican,  Portuguese,  or  Italian 
pastor  for  one  year. 

$1,000  will  provide  half  of  a  perpetual 
scholarship  at  the  Spanish  American 
Institute. 

$1,000  will  put  a  small  swimming  pool 
in  Epworth  Institutional  Church,  Den¬ 
ver. 

$1,000  will  start  a  Church  at  Okanogan, 
Washington.  Methodists  were  the  first 
of  any  denomination  to  enter  this  com¬ 
munity,  but  the  building  at  this  coun¬ 
ty  seat  is  miserably  inadequate. 

$1,000  will  assist  the  congregation  at 
Nespelem,  Washington,  in  the  very 


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heart  of  the  great  Colville  Indian  Res¬ 
ervation  to  add  a  recreational  center  i 
to  the  church. 

$1,000  will  open  up  a  new  work  in  an 
un-churched  section  of  Mississippi  and 
secure  its  development. 

$1,000  to  $3,500  toward  a  Memorial  Jap¬ 
anese  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  at 
Berkeley,  California,  will  enable  the 
people  to  erect  a  $7,000  church 

$1,000  to  $4,000  toward  a  Memorial  Jap¬ 
anese  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  at 
Sacramento,  California,  will  enable  the 
people  to  erect  an  $8,000  church. 

$1,500  will  provide  for  100  boys  from 
the  foreign  constituency  of  the  Broad¬ 
way  Methodist  Church  of  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  at  a  Garden  Camp  for  a  period 
of  12  weeks. 

$2,000  will  purchase  a  missionary  motor 
boat  for  the  Alaska  Mission. 

$2,500  will  erect  an  open  air  Kindergar¬ 
ten  in  Hawaii.  2  are  needed. 

$2,500  will  erect  a  Korean  Church  in 
Hawaii.  2  are  needed. 

$3,000  will  provide  five  Fords  for  five 
Mexican  preachers  in  New  Mexico. 

$5,000  will  build  five  parsonages  for 
Mexican  preachers  in  New  Mexico. 

Your  money  invested  in  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Home  Missions  will  produce 
more  than  anywhere  else  in  the  world, 
because  behind  it  will  be  the  limitless 
power  of  God. 


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A  BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF 
METHODIST  EPIS¬ 
COPAL  HOME 
MISSIONS 

[The  literature  on  Methodist  Episcopal 
Home  Missions  may  be  secured  of 
the  Board  of  Home  Missions  and 
Church  Extension  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  1701  Arch  Street, 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  unless 
otherwise  indicated.] 

CHRISTIAN  DEMOCRACY  FOR 
AMERICA.  By  D.  D.  Forsyth  and 
Ralph  Welles  Keeler. 

The  new  order  as  it  applies  to  Metho¬ 
dist  Episcopal  Home  Missions  is  here 
presented  to  relate  the  task  of  the 
Church  to  the  great  adventure  of  mak¬ 
ing  Christian  Americans  of  every  man, 
woman,  and  child  who  lives  under  the 
protection  of  the  Stars  and  Stripes. 

Illustrated.  Maps  and  Charts,  Biblio¬ 
graphy.  Cloth,  75  cents;  paper,  50 
cents,  postpaid.  The  Methodist  Book 
Concern. 

THE  CENTENARY  SURVEY  OF 
THE  BOARD  OF  HOME  MIS¬ 
SIONS  AND  CHURCH  EXTEN¬ 
SION  OF  THE  METHODIST 
EPISCOPAL  CHURCH.  Board  cov¬ 
ers.  Illustrated  with  charts  and  maps. 
Bound  with  the  Centenary  Survey  of 
the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  $1.00, 
postpaid. 


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THE  CHRISTIAN  CONQUEST  OF 
AMERICA.  By  Ralph  Welles  Keeler 
and  Ellen  Coughlin  Keeler. 

The  romance  of  Methodist  Episcopal 
Home  Missions  from  the  beginning 
until  now  with  the  present-day  vision 
and  the  task  for  to-morrow.  A  pre¬ 
sentation  comprehensive  and  concrete, 
rich  with  scholarly  insight  and  alive 
with  the  racy  style  of  the  Short-story 
writer.  Printed  in  pamphlet  form. 
Illustrated  56  pages.  Bibliography. 
Price  per  copy,  15  cents;  one  dozen, 
$1.50;  per  hundred,  $10.00  postpaid. 
The  Methodist  Book  Concern. 

HOME  BOARD  BOOKLETS 

1.  Three  Outposts  of  Liberty.  Porto 

Rico,  Hawaii,  and  Alaska. 

2.  Save  the  City.  A  discussion  of  the 

problems  confronting  the  Church  in 
reaching  the  industrial  and  foreign¬ 
speaking  groups  of  the  cities. 

3.  The  Stranger  Within  Our  Gates.  A 

study  of  the  Americanization  prob¬ 
lem. 

4.  Broken  Trails  on  The  Frontier.  A 

view  of  the  work  in  the  Church’s 
frontier. 

5.  Off  the  Highroad.  An  inquiry  into 

the  rural  situation  in  connection 
with  the  work  of  the  Church. 

6.  John  Stewart’s  Kinsmen.  A  survey 

of  the  needs  of  the  Negro. 

These  booklets  are  6x9  inches,  illus¬ 
trated,  and  average  24  pages.  They 
are  5  cents  each,  or  packet  containing 
6  for  25  cents  postpaid. 


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LIVE  HOME  MISSION  MESSAGES 

Two-colored,  illustrated,  4-page  leaflets 
12  x  8*4  inches.  Concrete  and  inter¬ 
esting  presentations  of  Methodist 

•  Episcopal  Home  Mission  endeavors. 

1.  The  Church  at  the  Center.  The  new 

day  of  the  rural  community. 

2.  The  Transformation.  The  story  of 

the  Old  and  New  Frontier. 

3.  From  Over  the  Border.  The  Spanish- 

American  of  the  Southwest. 

4.  The  Invasion  from  Dixie.  A  study 

of  the  Negro  migration  Northward. 

5.  Our  Italian  Allies.  The  Italian  im¬ 

migrant  in  the  United  States. 

6.  The  Builders.  The  Church  Exten¬ 

sion  romance  of  the  Methodist  Epis¬ 
copal  Church. 

7.  The  City.  The  tragedy  and  oppor¬ 

tunity  of  the  city  church. 

8.  Evangelism.  The  call  of  the  Church 

to  its  fundamental  mission. 

Single  copies  of  these  Messages  may  be 
secured  free.  Quantities  for  distri¬ 
bution  may  be  secured  for  50  cents  a 
hundred,  postpaid. 

IN  MEMORIAM.  A  six-page  three- 
color  illustrated  folder  on  the  Mem¬ 
orial  Church.  Free. 

TALKING  POINTS 

A  series  of  8-page  leaflets  3^4  x  614 
inches,  containing  concise  facts  on 
Home  Mission  fields,  prepared  for  the 
use  of  District  Superintendents,  pas- 


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tors,  Sunday  School  teachers,  Epworth 
Leaguers  and  Centenary  workers. 

1.  The  Frontier 

2.  The  Rural  Commuity 

3.  The  New  American 

4.  The  City 

5.  The  American  Negro 

6.  Southern  Highlanders 

These  may  be  secured  free  by  writing 
to  the  Board  of  Home  Missions  and 
Church  Extension  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  1701  Arch  Street, 
Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

INVESTMENTS  IN  CHRISTIAN 
DEMOCRACY 

A  leaflet  3^4  x  6%  inches,  indicating 
what  sums  of  money  ranging  from 
$1.00  to  $1,000  will  do  in  the  Home 
Mission  field.  Free. 

REVIVAL  SERMONS 
Outlines  for  revival  sermons  prepared 
for  pastors  by  the  Department  of 
Evangelism.  Free. 

COMMUNITY  SERVICE  FOR  THE 
LOCAL  CHURCH 

A  16  page  manual  of  suggestions  for 
efficiency  in  local  community  service, 
with  bibliography.  10  cents. 

ORGANIZING  A  DISTRICT  FOR 
COMMUNITY  SERVICE 

A  12  page  manual  for  District  Superin¬ 
tendents  to  accompany  Community 
Service  in  the  Local  Church.  10 
cents. 


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GENERAL 
BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF 
HOME  MISSIONS 


Democracy 

The  Soul  of  Democracy.  By  Edward 
Howard  Griggs.  $1.25. 

America— Here  and  Over  There.  By 
Luther  B.  Wilson.  75  cents. 
Religious  Education  and  Democracy, 
By  Benjamin  S.  Winchester.  $1.50. 
In  Our  First  Year  of  War.  By  Wood- 
row  Wilson.'  $1.00. 

The  New  Democracy.  By  Walter  E. 
Weyl.  $2.00. 

Our  Democracy,  Its  Origins  and  Its 
Tasks.  By  James  H.  Tufts.  $1.50. 
The  Religious  Foundation  of  Amer¬ 
ica.  By  Charles  Lemuel  Thompson. 
$1.50. 

Frontier 

The  Oregon  Missions.  By  James  W. 
Bashford.  $1.25. 

Brigham  Young  and  His  Mormon  Em¬ 
pire.  By  Cannon  and  Knapp. 
Foundations  of  Mormonism.  By  W. 
E.  La  Rue.  $1.25. 

Trail  Tales.  By  J.  D.  Gillilan.  75 
cents. 

Frontier  Missionary  Problems.  By 
Bruce  Kinney.  $1.25. 

The  Frontier.  By  Ward  Platt.  60 
cents. 

Brother  Van.  By  Stella  W.  Brummitt. 
60  cents. 


183 


The  American  Indian  on  the  New 
Trail.  By  Thomas  C.  Moffett.  60 
cents. 

The  Klondike  Clan.  By  S.  Hall 

Young.  $1.35. 

Advance  in  the  Antilles.  By  Howard 
B.  Grose.  60  cents. 

Down  in  Porto  Rico.  By  George  Mil- 
ton  Fowles.  75  cents. 

Rural 

Introduction  to  Rural  Sociology.  By 
Paul  L.  Vogt.  $2.50. 

The  Rural  Church  Serving  the  Com¬ 
munity.  By  Edwin  L.  Earp.  75 

cents. 

The  American  Rural  School.  By 

Harold  W.  Foght.  $1.25. 

The  Study  of  a  Rural  Parish.  By 
Ralph  A.  Felton.  50  cents. 

City 

The  Challenge  of  Pittsburgh.  By 

Daniel  L.  March.  60  cents. 

The  Challenge  of  St.  Louis.  By 

George  B.  Mangold.  60  cents. 

The  Churgh  in  the  City.  By  Frederick 
D.  Leete.  $1.00. 

The  Redemption  of  the  South  End. 
By  E.  C.  E.  Dorion.  $1.00. 

/  mmigrant 

Sons  of  Italy.  By  Antonio  Mangano. 
60  cents. 

Immigrant  Forces.  By  William  P. 
Shriver.  60  cents. 

The  Immigrant  and  the  Community. 

By  Grace  Abbott.  $1.00. 

Leadership  for  the  New  America.  By 
Archibald  McClure.  $1.25. 


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Negro 

Your  Negro  Neighbor.  By  Benjamin 
G.  Brawley.  60  cents. 

Methodism  and  the  Negro.  By  I.  L. 
Thomas.  $1.00. 

A  Short  History  of  the  American 
Negro.  By  Benjamin  G.  Brawley. 
$1.25. 

Church  Extension 

The  New  Country  Church  Building. 
By  Edwin  deS.  Brunner.  75  cents. 

Evangelism 

Social  Evangelism.  By  Harry  F. 

Ward.  50  cents  ;  postage,  8  cents. 
Educational  Evangelism.  By  Charles 
E.  McKinley.  50  cents ;  postage, 
10  cents. 

Every  Church  Its  Own  Evangelist.  By 
Loren  M.  Edwards.  50  cents. 
Letters  on  Evangelism.  By  Edwin  H. 

Hughes.  25  cents ;  postage,  3  cents. 
The  Gospel  for  a  Working  World. 

By  Harry  F.  Ward.  60  cents. 

Heart  Messages  from  the  Psalms.  By 
Ralph  Welles  Keeler.  50  cents. 

The  books  can  be  secured  at  The 
Methodist  Book  Concern  or  any 
of  its  depositories. 


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Part  III 

A  SUGGESTION  OR 
TWO 

THE  CENTENARY 
BULLETIN 

Is  the  official  newspaper  of  the  Centen¬ 
ary  Movement.  It  is  published  each 
week  under  the  auspices  of  the  Joint 
Centenary  Committee  and  it  aims  to 
present  to  the  Church  the  current  rec¬ 
ord  of  the  progress  of  the  Centenary 
throughout  the  Church.  The  publicity 
workers  attached  to  the  areal  offices 
keep  the  Bulletin  in  touch  with  the 
different  sections  of  the  Church. 
Trained  newspaper  writers  in  the 
New  York  office  prepare  the  material 
for  publication. 

The  Bulletin  is  probably  the  most  wide¬ 
ly  circulated  religious  newspaper  in 
the  world.  On  its  regular  mailing  list 
are  the  bishops,  district  superintend¬ 
ents  and  presiding  elders  of  both 
branches  of  Methodism;  officers  of  all 
the  connectional  organizations  in  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  and  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  South ;  all  the  pas¬ 
tors  of  our  Church,  members  of  the 
Centenary  councils  in  areas,  districts 
and  local  churches ;  minute  men,  unit 
leaders  and  many  other  laymen  who 
are  interested  in  the  work  of  the  Cen¬ 
tenary.  The  circulation  is  well  be¬ 
yond  100,000  copies  each  week  and 
is  increasing  all  the  time. 

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MISSIONARY  NEWS 

There  is  probably  no  publication  in  all 
the  field  of  religious  journalism  that 
has  more  intimate,  personal  type  of 
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